Recordings
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MASCAGNI: L’Amico Fritz
MASCAGNI: L’Amico Fritz
“Rosetta Cucchi’s warm and charming staging transplants this gentle-tempered opera from nineteenth-century Alsace to 1980s Connecticut.”
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OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne
OFFENBACH: La Vie Parisienne
“This five-act, three-hour version for completists drags on and on; there’s an excess of heavy-handed dialogue delivery and an abundance of mugging.”
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Karim Sulayman: Broken Branches
Karim Sulayman: Broken Branches
“At its core, this is an album by two Western classical musicians of Asian descent attempting to navigate their intersecting ethnic and sonic identities.”
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Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Four Last Songs
Rachel Willis-Sørensen: Four Last Songs
“Willis-Sørensen’s voice responds keenly to Strauss’s vocal writing. The top is its glory.”
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Kitty Whately: Befreit: A Soul Surrendered
Kitty Whately: Befreit: A Soul Surrendered
Songs by Müller-Hermann, Mahler, Strauss and Schweikert. Middleton, piano. Texts and translations. Chandos CHAN 20177
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Eva Zaïcik: Mayrig: To Armenian Mothers
Eva Zaïcik: Mayrig: To Armenian Mothers
“Zaïcik’s uniquely expressive mezzo enlivens these Armenian songs with musical nuance and poetic urgency.”
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LORTZING: Der Waffenschmied
LORTZING: Der Waffenschmied
“Lortzing’s spielopern deserve more than a passing glance—especially this one, which Mahler called ‘the little Meistersinger.’”
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WIEMANN: I Give You My Home
WIEMANN: I Give You My Home
“Beth Weimann imagines a speech Rose Standish Nichols, New England landscape architect and suffragist, might have given to guests at a Sunday salon.”
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GESUALDO: Tenebrae Responsoria, Feria Quinta
GESUALDO: Tenebrae Responsoria, Feria Quinta
“The six singers provide beautiful and sophisticated a cappella singing of this demanding music.”
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Lucile Richardot and Stéphane Degout: Les Heures Claires: Songs of Nadia and Lili Boulanger
Lucile Richardot and Stéphane Degout: Les Heures Claires: Songs of Nadia and Lili Boulanger
“The songs and instrumental pieces heard here, composed between 1901 and 1920, afford a wonderful representation of the intense, refined musical world of the Belle Époque.”