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HANDEL Xerxes (Carydis)

From Figaro and Così downwards, comic opera stagings today rarely escape without a disturbing final twist. This Serse from Frankfurt...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018

BRITTEN Death in Venice (Pérez)

It is good to see Death in Venice making its way around Europe after a lengthy period of neglect following...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2018

Impermanence

This first recording by the Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble for Sono Luminus displays a stunning precision of harmony and intonation, and...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018

Grand Russian

The best performances of Tchaikovsky’s sometimes rambling and pianistically unwieldy G major Sonata project the music in symphonic terms, with...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018

Frolov and Friends

Igor Frolov (b1937, not to be confused with the Moscow-based cyclist of the same name, b1990!) enjoyed an international concert...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

Clusters: American Piano Explorations

Rory Cowal opens this recital with Johanna Beyer’s multi movement Clusters, a riveting and attention-grabbing work that ought to be...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018

OAKLEY Wanderer: Chamber Works

The Georgian-American composer George Oakley writes in an appealing and colourful style that blends elements of his Georgian folk heritage...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2018

MCENCROE My Symphonic Poems

'I’m not an academically trained composer/musician’, writes Mark John McEncroe in this new Navona two-disc set (the fourth devoted to...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018

JS BACH Cantatas 76, 79, 80

Recorded live during the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake (Jurowski)

Vladimir Jurowski has a beef with ballet companies and the 1895 revision of Swan Lake. In last month’s enthralling ‘The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018

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