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WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer

Janowski’s early success with The Ring on record (now RCA, and see my survey of the cycle, A/07) makes him...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2011

STRAUSS Capriccio

New recordings of Capriccio appear seldom but this one really isn’t meant to compete. It appears to be an afterthought,...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2011

DVOŘÁK Rusalka

Productions of Rusalka come in two varieties: the picturesque traditional and the psychologically probing. This DVD from Munich goes for...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2011

Set the piano stool on fire

“It is tempting, perhaps, but unrewarding,” wrote Harold Macmillan in 1973, “to hang about the green room after final retirement...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2011

PUCCINI Tosca

The Metropolitan Opera’s Franco Zeffirelli production of Turandothas nearly achieved tourist-attraction status in New York since first leaving the public...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2011

MAHLER Symphony No 10

Conductors, especially British ones, who study the Tenth early on tend to become determined champions. Mark Wigglesworth has performed the...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2011

MAHLER Symphony No 5

For a time Klaus Tennstedt (1926-98) seemed destined to become EMI’s next ‘Grand Old Man’, a less worldly, less cerebral...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2011

DVOŘÁK Symphonies 7 & 8

Some expected Norrington attributes (uncluttered textures, minimal vibrato, etc) help focus the bare essentials of both masterpieces, the Seventh emerging...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:

DEBUSSY La Mer RAVEL Me Mère l'Oye

The aqueous glints and flecks of colour in Debussy’s La mer are attractively caught in this performance by the Seoul...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011

JS BACH 5 Keyboard Concertos

The inter-reliance of keyboard and orchestra creating something ‘positively embedded’ (beyond mere dialogue) represents both the practical and ideological substance...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2011

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