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Beethoven & the Italians from Enrico Onofri and the Münchener Kammerorchester
4th Sep 2026by David Smith
Three gripping Beethoven symphonies, interspersed with works by some of the finest Italian opera composers of the period, combine into an illuminatingly-woven programme that reveals new facets of both styles.
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In The Shadows with Michael Spyres
1st Mar 2024by Katherine Cooper
The American singer teams up with Les Talens Lyriques and Christophe Rousset to explore some of the operas which influenced Wagner - including works by Méhul, Beethoven, Meyerbeer and Spontini.
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Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale
19th May 2023by Katherine Cooper
The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.