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SCHREKER Die Gezeichneten

Between 1913 and 1915, as the First World War began to exert its stranglehold on Europe, Franz Schreker worked on...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014

SCARLATTI Carlo re d'Allemagna

Agogique’s deficient booklet-notes lack an adequate synopsis and offer only scant information about the historical context and musical elements of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

With its unwieldy title, Wagnerian allusions and less-than-coherent symbolism, The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh is one of...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

RAMEAU Dardanus

Dardanus comes in two very different versions. This recording is of the second, staged in 1744 and revived in 1760....

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2014

PUCCINI La Bohème

This new Bohème from Valencia falls unsatisfactorily between two stools, with Davide Livermore’s production plumping for a safe but bland,...

Reviewed in issue 04/2014

MOZART Cosi fan tutte

Mozart’s third collaboration with da Ponte is here given a makeover by Michael Haneke, an Austrian film director whose Amour...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2014

d'INDY L'Étranger

This is a real rarity: an opera by Vincent d’Indy, composer, co founder of the Schola Cantorum in Paris, editor...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2014

Donizetti: Heroines

The Croatian soprano Elena Moşuc may be new to many but this successful bel canto recital – her first major-label...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014

BRITTEN Peter Grimes

Opera al fresco can be a hazardous experience during an English summer, especially on the windswept east coast. Nevertheless, the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2014

BENJAMIN Written on Skin

From its premiere in Aix-en-Provence to performances in Munich, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Florence and London, and with a live CD recording...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2014

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