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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
Hispania & Japan
In many ways a sequel to ‘Road to the Orient’ (1/08), tracing the travels of St Francis Xavier, this delicately...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2011
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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