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BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus. 12 German Dances. 12 Menuets

Anyone in Beethoven’s orchestral world who ventures beyond the well-travelled symphonic trail has some remedial work to do – first...

Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 08/2013

ADAMS Nixon in China

Nixon in China has appeared amidst a blaze of publicity, and suddenly John Adams is a household name. Created in...

Reviewed in issue 10/88

WAGNER Opera Excerpts

The Meistersinger Overture’s sprightly pace (heading towards a total playing time of less than 10 minutes), the crisp Toscanini-like timpani...

Reviewed in issue 08/2013

VERDI Attilla

Until Samuel Ramey took up the title-role in the 1980s, Verdi’s ninth opera was known less from performances in the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2013

STRAUSS Die schweigsame Frau

Though Strauss worked feverishly to be frivolous in so many of his later works and often created fascinating operatic hybrids,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2013

WEBER Der Freischütz

Sir Colin Davis brought his Mozart and Berlioz experience to Weber and Kind’s early Schauerromantik opera throughout his career –...

Reviewed in issue 08/2013

SCARLATTI Dove è amore è gelosia

You might wonder why an obscure opera buffa by Domenico Scarlatti’s nephew Giuseppe has made it to a slick new...

Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 08/2013

PERGOLESI La Salustia

>La Salustia (Naples, 1732) was the 21-year-old Pergolesi’s first serious stage work. The libretto is an adaptation of Apostolo Zeno’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013

MONTEVERDI L’incoronazione di Poppea

Yet another DVD of L’incoronazione di Poppea, and the second within a few years to be conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm....

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

Here, nicely in time for its first revival, is last year’s Glyndebourne Figaro. Updated to the 1960s, it’s difficult to...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013

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