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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 5 (Currentzis)

To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

JS BACH St Matthew Passion (Suzuki)

To embark on a second recording of the St Matthew Passion 20 or so years after an admired reading with...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2020

Steven Masi: Brahmsiana

There have been many fine recordings of Brahms’s Opp 117 and 118 in recent years: Barry Douglas and Jonathan Plowright...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

REALE Stroke of Midnight

The composer’s booklet note (written in spring last year) here opens in melancholic mood, with the news that he had,...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020

MOZART Piano Concertos Vol 1 (Anne-Marie McDermott)

Whether or not this release’s ‘Vol 1’ designation signifies the start of a Mozart piano concerto cycle, it nevertheless showcases...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012 (Juliana Soltis; Mike Block)

These releases’ provocative titles suggest that Juliana Soltis and Mike Block are about to knock Bach’s Cello Suites off their...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020

WEILL Street Scene (Murray)

Street Scene appeared on Broadway in 1947 and never returned to the Great White Way. But if it was not...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2020

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Tristan und Isolde)

German opera still seems slower following up its newcomers than its Italian counterpart (unless we’re talking Jonas Kaufmann). This show...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

Olga Mykytenko : I vespri verdiani

‘Is there such a thing as a “Verdian Soprano”?’ asks the booklet to this debut release from Olga Mykytenko. Everyone...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020

VERDI Rigoletto (Mazzola)

There’s no denying the star attraction of Philipp Stölzl’s new Rigoletto for the Bregenz Festival: his €8 million set. Of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020

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