Reviews

Tenor Freddie de Tommaso’s debut album tops classical charts

Freddie...
Where All Roses Go

Apollo5
VOCES8 Records VCM 130 [72:00]
★★★★★

What...
A Legend Reborn: The Voice of King’s

Fugue State Films FSFDVD 013
(2DVDs) [120:00; 109:51];
(2CDs) [50:39; 59:12]
★★★★★

Documentary exploring the 2016 restoration of the Harrison &
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Lise Davidsen – second solo album now out

Beethoven-Wagner-Verdi

Lise Davidsen

Decca 485 1507

***** five...
Opera Now’s April DVD choice: Fidelio from the Teatre an der Wien

From the hideous cultural decimation...
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...

… and …

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]
★★★★

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Reviews

Tenor Freddie de Tommaso’s debut album tops classical charts

Where All Roses Go

A Legend Reborn: The Voice of King’s

Lise Davidsen – second solo album now out

Opera Now’s April DVD choice: Fidelio from the Teatre an der Wien

Bruckner: Mass in E minor; Motets

Transcriptions for Organ

Longborough’s Pagliacci: emotionally charged – at a safe distance

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

… and …

Nordic Journey vol.10: Danish Perspectives

Opera Now’s pick of Plácido Domingo recordings

Josquin: Masses

Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols