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GRÉTRY William Tell

Poor Grétry. A native of Liège, he was a key figure in the development of opéra comique. In 2013 the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014

GLUCK La Clemenza di Tito

Some 40 years before Mozart turned La clemenza di Tito into what he dubbed a ‘true opera’, Gluck set Metastasio’s...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014

CALDARA In dolce Amore

The Venetian Antonio Caldara worked at the Imperial court in Vienna from summer 1716 until his death 20 years later....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

ANDRIESSEN La Commedia

This is purgatory. At least that’s where Louis Andriessen’s 2008 ‘film opera’ La Commedia is set. Andriessen and his collaborator,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Concerto for 2 Violins, BWV1043

‘Two x Four’ is the snazzy title for a conceptual programme built around Bach’s Concerto for two violins and the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

Per Monsieur Pisendel

Johan Georg Pisendel may not be a household name in our own time but in the 18th century he was...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014

WEINBERG Symphony No 21

If Mieczysaw Weinberg (or Moysey Vaynberg, as the Russians knew him) suffered neglect and humiliation during his lifetime, he could...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2

Tchaikovsky’s much-maligned Second Concerto is still a relative rarity so any new recording is an event, especially with a line-up...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade

Since refurbishing the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2011, Peter Oundjian has introduced nine new principals, so Sheherazade is as good...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2014

NORDHEIM The Hunting of the Snark. The Return of the Snark

If recording activity is anything to go by, the music of Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) is not suffering the neglect of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014

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