Reviews
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Lise Davidsen – second solo album now out
Beethoven-Wagner-VerdiLise Davidsen
Decca 485 1507
***** five...
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Opera Now’s April DVD choice: Fidelio from the Teatre an der Wien
From the hideous cultural decimation...
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Bruckner: Mass in E minor; Motets
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Henry Websdale and Dónal McCann (org) / Sir Stephen Cleobury (dir)
King’s College,
Transcriptions for Organ
Lennart Morée, Hinsz/Van Dam organ (1781/1861), Martinikerk, Bolsward (NL)
STH Quality Classics CD 1420412 [72:44]
★★★★★One of the few joys of being locked down...
Longborough’s Pagliacci: emotionally charged – at a safe distance
Review By Adrian Mourby
Towards the end of last year, Longborough Festival Opera presented a socially distanced production of Pagliacci.
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Opera Now’s pick of operas online
In Travels From My Armchair (see page 43 of Opera Now’s March/April issue), Professor Anthony Ogus has given his recommendations of operas to watch...
Das Rosenband – soprano Inga Kalna new disc with songs from her native Latvia
Inga Kalna has sung lyric coloratura roles... 
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Ars Nova Copenhagen / Paul Hillier (dir)
Naxos 8.574281 [62:48]
★★★★★This CD is subtitled ‘A collection of sacred music by Arvo Pärt,
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Nordic Journey vol.10: Danish Perspectives
James D. Hicks, Poul-Gerhard Andersen organ (1994), Sankt Mortens Kirke, Randers, and Olsen (1879)/Marcussen & Son (1986) organ, Helligåndskirken,
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Opera Now’s pick of Plácido Domingo recordings
If you are not waving but drowning in the choice of Domingo recordings, here is something to commence with – a list of 10...
Josquin: Masses
Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips (dir)
Gimell CDGIM 051 [71:40]
★★★★★Crowning glory to a cycle begun in 1986,
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Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Tanya Houghton (hp) / Graham Ross (dir)
Harmonia mundi HMM 905329
[74:58]
★★★★