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Wagner Parsifal
Christian Thielemann conducts Wagner’s letzte Karte like a psychological thriller.He revels in the broken fragments of arioso and recitative (so...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 6/2006
Schoenberg Lieder
Lars Thodberg Bertelsen | Susanne Lange | Tove Lønskov
There is no better way to approach an understanding of Schoenberg's dual role as continuer and subverter of musical tradition...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 2/1990
Marschner Hans Heiling
Hans Heiling is one of that shivery type of being, the supernatural creature who sometimes takes a human form. Various...
Reviewed in issue 11/1991
WAGNER Parsifal
In the first scenes of Acts 1 and 3, Janowski – like Rattle in 2001 at Covent Garden and Hartmut...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2012
BRAHMS Die schöne Magelone. Vier ernste Gesänge
Roderick Williams | Roger Vignoles
>‘I am a sucker for late-Romantic song or perhaps for histrionic fairy tales of derring-do and blushing maidens’, states baritone...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2017
MAHLER Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
The revelation of Vladimir Jurowski’s live London Philharmonic account from last year has made it difficult, if not impossible, to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2012
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Hrůša)
Anna Lucia Richter | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Jakub Hrusa
Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021
MOZART Lucio Silla (Equilbey)
The success of Mozart’s first opera seria, Mitridate, for the ducal theatre in Milan, led immediately to a second commission....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2022
HAYDN Complete Piano Trios Vol 1 (Trio Gaspard)
Great music, boring cello parts was the traditional verdict on Haydn’s keyboard trios. If you got to know these glorious...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2022
BRAHMS The Symphonies (Nézet-Séguin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Numerous chamber orchestras have recorded the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century. My favourite features the Chamber...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2024
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