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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 2 & 3 SCHUMANN 3 Romances

Having already recorded Brahms’s First Sonata, Op 78, Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov complete the set with a performance of...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015

BERG Lyric Suite

First, hats off to the Belcea and Emerson quartets for astonishingly accurate and coordinated accounts of the Lyric Suite, even...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015

Arias for Luigi Marchesi

The musicologist Stefano Aresi and his intrepid ensemble Stile Galante turn their microscope on the Milanese castrato Luigi Marchesini (1755-1829),...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015

Arias for Benucci

Not usually one to go overboard about Italians, Mozart was delighted with the singing of Francesco Benucci, star of Vienna’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015

WAGNER Das Rheingold

This is the fifth performance since 2004 you may be able to access of the first Ring opera under Simon...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015

TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta

It’s wonderful to see Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta finally receiving its due. Peter Sellars’s quirky staging appeared at Aix-en-Provence this summer and...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015

ROSSINI La gazza ladra

Rossini’s La gazza ladra, based on the story of a French peasant girl who was hanged for thefts later discovered...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015

OFFENBACH Les Contes d’Hoffmann

‘Pass by, epileptic dunghill without grandeur, hysterical trash-heap of plays and shows!’ The words are Fernando Pessoa’s in his ranting...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

MOZART Cosi fan tutte; Don Giovanni

Here we go again. Sven-Eric Bechtolf is another theatre director who doesn’t understand Così fan tutte. Correction: he understands it...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2015

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Hard on the heels of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s DG recording of Mozart’s Ottoman Singspiel (DG, 8/15) comes this radical version from...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

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