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TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin (Vedernikov)

Galina Vishnevskaya, one of the great Tatyanas of the 20th century, vowed never to set foot inside the Bolshoi again...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020

TASCA A Santa Lucia (Frank)

The feared Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick was full of praise for A Santa Lucia but then he was using Tasca’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020

OFFENBACH Un mari à la porte (Galli)

If there’s one thing that last year’s Offenbach anniversary celebrations demonstrated, it’s the sheer inexhaustibility of his well of melody....

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020

HANDEL Agrippina (Emelyanychev)

The climax of Handel’s Italian sojourn, Agrippina ran and ran after its sensational Venice premiere early in 1710. As told...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

EÖTVÖS Tri Sestry (Three Sisters)

After more than 20 years of frequent performances it seems right for the Hungarian composer/conductor Peter Eötvös’s adapted setting of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

CHARPENTIER La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (van Mechelen)

Both of these pieces have been recorded before, but this seems to be the first time that they have appeared...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2020

Une soirée chez Berlioz

The very linking of Berlioz and the guitar still sounds like an improbable answer to a fantasy quiz question. Was...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020

Passions: Venezia 1600-1750

Passions moved, passions shared, and the Passion of Christ on the Cross. This programme, a seemingly disparate selection of early...

Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2020

Lines Written During a Sleepless Night

Louise Alder’s recording presence moves into a considerably higher gear with this release – not her first recital disc but...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2020

Liederkreis: Decades – A Century of Song, Vol 4: 1840-1850

Schumann’s bittersweet Heine cycle of love frustrated and love betrayed heads the billing here. But as in earlier volumes of...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020

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