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ARNOLD Symphony No 7. Philharmonic Concerto

This useful anthology brings together three of Malcolm Arnold’s most powerfully distinctive and deeply personal works. All date from the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015

Blandine Staskiewicz: Tempesta

Never judge a book by its cover. Mind you, the faux tattoos on Blandine Staskiewicz’s bare shoulders proclaiming ‘Tempesta –...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

Dagmar Pecková: Sinful Women

In addition to her operatic and concert career – Mahler a particular speciality – Dagmar Pecková has created a number...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

Christiane Karg: Scene!

That indefatigable one-man libretto factory Pietro Metastasio is the linking thread in these scenas of damsels in extremis, complemented in Ch’io...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

Ann Hallenberg: Agrippina

This disc’s title inevitably evokes the stop-at-nothing schemer of Handel’s satirical Venetian opera. But as Ann Hallenberg and her musicologist...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

WUORINEN Brokeback Mountain

Few short stories have become so quickly and so deeply embedded in the American consciousness as Annie Proulx’s 1997 Brokeback...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2015

WEBER Silvana

There can’t be many operas in which the heroine sings not a word. Auber’s La Muette de Portici has its...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

VINCI Catone in Utica

Max Emanuel Cencic and his production company Parnassus Arts follow up their trailblazing recording of Vinci’s Artaserse (Virgin Classics, 1/13)...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

VERDI Nabucco

As captured on this DVD, Nicola Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano’s orchestra and Renato Balsadonna’s...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

Strauss Gala Concert

Numerous fine ideas here – which only half worked. An all-Richard Strauss gala makes sense for Dresden (one of the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2015

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