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PFITZNER Palestrina

In Palestrina, Pfitzner was an inheritor of Wagner’s through-composed music dramas – indeed, his sparing use of vocal display, of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012

OFFENBACH Un Mari à la porte

Even after success with Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach continued to produce the light-hearted one-act operettas that had earlier made his...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 09/2012

MONTEVERDI L'incoronazione di Poppea

First presented in Munich and Cardiff 15 years ago, the David Alden/Paul Steinberg/Buki Schiff Poppea is seen here in a...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012

MASSENET Cendrillon

As there is no wholly recommendable recording of Cendrillon on CD, a new DVD release is welcome. To date the...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2012

HANDEL Atalanta, HWV35

Atalanta was designed to celebrate the recent marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha and was...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012

BELLINI Il Pirata

Someone should write a biography of Domenico Barbaia, the larger-than-life impresario whose management of the opera houses in Naples, Vienna...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012

España

The Belgian pianist Michel Block (1937-2003) grew up in Mexico enraptured by the Spanish music he heard on the radio....

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

James Rhodes Live in Brighton

For his first live solo release, James Rhodes mainly offers works he’s previously recorded in the studio, plus Beethoven’s Waldstein...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012

Emil Gilels Early Recordings Vol 3

Few pianists have possessed a more comprehensive, magisterial technique or musical integrity than Emil Gilels (his early volatility later calming...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

WIDOR The Organ Symphonies, Vol 1

Aficionados of Widor’s Toccata will be interested to know that Joseph Nolan adopts the slow and stately approach, rather than...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2012

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