Rachel Willis-Sørensen on Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs

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Soprano Adriana González on her album 'Rondos for Adriana'

The soprano Adriana González has just released a new Audax album, 'Rondos for Adriana', inspired by her namesake, the Italian 18th-century diva Adriana Ferrarese del Bene. Ferrarese was Mozart's first Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and she sang Susanna in the Viennese revival of Le ...  Show more

ARC Ensemble's Simon Wynberg on their Music in Exile series for Chandos

Toronto's ARC Ensemble have been exploring the music of composers forced to flee their homeland by the Nazis. The most recent release in Chandos's Music in Exile series – of music by Ernest Kanitz (1894-1978) – drew an enthusiastic welcome by Gramophone's critic Richard Bratby, a ...  Show more

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