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GÁL; SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trios

The Hans Gál revival – on disc, at least – continues apace. With the symphonies, concertos and concertinos, complete piano...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18

DEAN Hamlet (Jurowski)

Any operatic adaptation of Hamlet is going to face scrutiny against Shakespeare’s text, but that process is surely futile from...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18

BUSONI Piano Concerto (Scarpini)

Although I’d hesitate to place Pietro Scarpini and Rafael Kubelík ahead of Marc-André Hamelin and Mark Elder as a top...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

STENHAMMAR Symphony No 2 (Lindberg)

Stenhammar consciously strove to fashion his Second Symphony (1915) in a ‘sober’, distinctively Nordic style that’s spiritually far removed from...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW18

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 & 11 (Nelsons)

This Nelsons cycle started with a bang – namely the most electrifying recording of the Tenth Symphony we’ve had in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018

BERNSTEIN Symphonies Nos 1-3 (Pappano)

Leonard Bernstein was the Honorary President of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1983 until his death in...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018

WOLF-FERRARI I quatro rusteghi (Petrenko)

How good is your Venetian dialect? Reissuing an opera like Verdi’s Falstaff without a libretto printed in the booklet is...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018

WEINBERG The Passenger (Dohnányi)

This gripping production from Yekaterinburg was the belated Russian stage premiere of Weinberg’s most celebrated work, the ‘Holocaust’ opera Passazhirka....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018

WAGNER Meistersinger; Tristan und Isolde; Lohengrin

Post-war ‘new’ Bayreuth got off to a good start, recording-wise. All of its first 1951 stagings were caught live by...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Bernstein)

Leonard Bernstein’s seemingly ambivalent fascination with Wagner’s Tristan had begun as early as the 1950s with substantial televised excerpts with...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018

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