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BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

In this 2011 film of a revival of Jonathan Kent’s Glyndebourne staging – a kind of companion sequel to the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2013

JC BACH Zanaida. Amadis de Gaule

Two operas in one month are a turn-up indeed for admirers of the most worldly of the Bach clan. Premiered...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2013

Opera arias of the Serenissima

Il Pomo d’Oro only formed last year but the band already have a prolific recording profile, with several Naïve Vivaldi...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013

WAGNER Tannhäuser

In keeping with his approach to earlier issues in this complete mature Wagner-in-concert series, Marek Janowski opts for the slimmer,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013

STRAUSS Elektra

If there’s such a thing as an anti-Solti Elektra, this is it. In contrast to his hyper articulate Decca set...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2013

KREUTZER La Mort D'Abel

The dedicatee of Beethoven’s violin sonata (Op 47), the French virtuoso Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) seems not to have ever played...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013

GOUNOD Romeo and Juliet

The publicity told us last year that ‘the award-winning tenor and international “cross-over” superstar returns to his first love –...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013

GLANVILLE-HICKS Sappho

Here’s just a small part of the riveting ‘back story’ of this never-quite-forgotten Australian composer (1912 90). A student of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013

DUKAS Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

The familiarity of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice seems to have detracted from recognition of one of the major French operas of...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 04/2013

BRITTEN The Rape of Lucretia

This performance springs into life from the opening bars. Ian Bostridge is on top form as the Male Chorus, engagingly...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2013

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