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MOZART Opera Arias and Overtures

In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

MOZART The Magic Flute

As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

METCALF Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood must be the most celebrated radio play of all time. The original 1954 BBC broadcast...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2015

GASPARINI Il Bajazet

Handel completed Tamerlano in advance of the 1724-25 season, but the tenor Francesco Borosini’s arrival in London prompted Handel to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

The Steinmeyer Organ in Nidaros Cathedral

With a specification that runs to 146 stops and an amazing 36 couplers, the 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Trondheim is...

Reviewed in issue 07/2015

Christopher Herrick: Power of Life

It may not go under the title of ‘Organ Fireworks’ but this latest offering from Christopher Herrick has all the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015

Xavier de Maistre: Moldau

Xavier de Maistre last graced these pages in October 2013 with a stunning disc of Mozart. His performance of the...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015

IVES; BERG; WEBERN Concord

Pairing Ives with Second Viennese School composers is not usually the done thing. All the more reason then to attempt...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2015

Antonio Meneses: Capriccioso

The cello has never drawn the same crowds as the violin or piano – otherwise the cellist-composers on this recording...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 07/2015

Liza Ferschtman; Tamsin Waley-Cohen Recitals

These two recitals have the Bartók Sonata as an important constituent but their focus is quite different. With Liza Ferschtman...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015

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