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HINDEMITH The Long Christmas Dinner

Thornton Wilder was one of the most musical of playwrights yet throughout his life rejected requests to set his plays...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2015

GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice

This new recording of Gluck’s most influential opera is also Franco Fagioli’s first release for DG since since he signed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015

DAVID Herculanum

There aren’t many grand opéra boxes left unticked by Herculanum, Félicien David’s only work in the genre and the 10th...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015

BIZET Carmen

If you hadn’t guessed this Arena di Verona production of Carmen was by Franco Zeffirelli, any doubts would be swept...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015

JS BACH Goldberg Variations

I’ve enjoyed this disc a lot and return to complete playings of it with pleasure. That says much about the...

Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: AW2015

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS A Sea Symphony

‘Steer for the deep waters only’, exhorts the poet in the last movement (‘The Explorers’) of A Sea Symphony, and...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015

VERDI Aida

Aida is the most classically concise of the great 19th-century grand operas yet it remains the one most closely associated...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015

The Song of the Stars

It’s impossible to express too emphatically just how good the girls of the Wells Cathedral School Choralia sound on this...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2015

Concert Celeste

With the approach of the year’s end comes this smorgasbord of seasonal fare focusing on four of the 12 days...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2015

VENABLES The Song of the Severn

Back in May 2011 I derived much pleasure from a Somm anthology devoted to Ian Venables’s chamber music and now...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015

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