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KORNGOLD Violin Concerto Op 25 BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1

An impressive, distinctive performance of the Bruch, with Arabella Steinbacher combining confident, easy virtuosity with concern to find the right...

Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 09/2013

ANDRES Home Stretch

A pianist of formidable capabilities and a composer who has already written for a number of respected performers and ensembles,...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2013

WAGNER Das Rheingold

Reputedly taken over at short notice from Carlos Kleiber (a story still unproven), Marek Janowski’s first Das Rheingold (1980) was...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

WAGNER Löhengrin

Karl Böhm was fired up not just by the stage productions of Wieland Wagner in the 1960s (Tristan, The Ring...

Reviewed in issue 09/2013

Placido Domingo: Verdi

At this rate, Plácido Domingo is likely to celebrate his 100th birthday singing the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlo, seeming...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos

Ariadne auf Naxos is essentially two one-act operas connected by an impending theatrical train wreck. Two music/theatre troupes – one...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013

PROVENZALE La Stellidaura vendicante

Only two complete operas by Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) survive, and with this being a world premiere recording it is safe...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 09/2013

HANDEL Serse

‘One of the worst that Handel ever set to music’, ran a contemporary verdict on the libretto of Serse, whose...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2013

DONIZETTI Caterina Cornaro

The historical Caterina Cornaro was the means by which Venice came to rule the island of Cyprus. She was married...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013

CHERUBINI Lodoïska

Lodoïska, performed in Paris in 1791, is sometimes cited as a model for Fidelio. The setting is 17th-century Poland. Count...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013

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