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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10

Andris Nelsons’s first (live) recording as Music Director of the Boston Symphony is quite something. It carries the title ‘Under...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015

Paolo Bordogna: Tutto buffo

The young Italian baritone Paolo Bordogna rattles and prattles his way through this programme of comic arias with an easy...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

Miah Persson: Sempre libera

Swedish soprano Miah Persson uses this recital to go a grade or two heavier than her accustomed Mozart, Handel and...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015

VERDI Simon Boccanegra

What? Simon Boccanegra without Plácido Domingo in the title-role? Ever since Dmitri Hvorostovsky began stepping carefully into the heavier Verdi...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2015

W TODD Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A promenade performance round London’s Holland Park of Will Todd’s opera for children must have been a delightful experience, as...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2015

STRAUSS Feuersnot

Only a matter of months after the release of a new CD recording of Strauss’s second opera (CPO’s fine Munich...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015

SALIERI Les Danaïdes

Written for Paris in 1784, Les Danaïdes was Salieri’s first French opera and the work that eventually sealed his international...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2015

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas

There’s a lot going for this newcomer. The scale is modest: single strings, with a theorbo to supplement Christopher Monks’s...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2015

NIELSEN Maskarade

‘In this dear land where sunshine comes but once a year…we’d rot away and end up as compost unless we...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2015

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

This seems to be the first CD recording of Entführung for some years, so it’s especially welcome. It follows Don...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2015

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