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The 1954 visit of the Vienna State Opera to London’s Royal Festival Hall with a Mozart/da Ponte cycle on improvised...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Così fan tutte met with mixed responses when it was unveiled at Covent Garden in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
In tandem with Martina Franca’s Valle d’Itria Festival, Dynamic has produced another live double (CD and DVD, available separately) of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
Massenet’s Werther makes for bleak viewing at the best of times. Goethe’s lovesick poet stumbles around after Charlotte (who’s already...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
At last! Anyone fascinated by fin de siècle Vienna will have heard of Richard Heuberger: friend of Brahms and outspoken...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018
When Daniela Dessì died in August 2016, the opera world lost an Italian spinto in the old-school mould. This Blu-ray...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
In the late 1950s or ’60s, if you were studying for A level, the tragicomedy The Visit of the Old...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
In the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that an alien landed on earth and demanded to be brought up to speed on...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018
‘O radiant Luminary’: composers down the ages have attempted to catch light in music, but the opening of Prayer to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
Following his intriguing Machaut/Stravinsky Mass pairing (5/17), Simon-Pierre Bestion offers us a Resurrection History similarly recontextualised, associating it with selections...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2018
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'The forensic study of Monteverdi’s madrigals bears ripe fruit from four decades of philological...
Jed Distler delves into a massive collection focusing on the conductor’s later discography
Richard Whitehouse on a collection taking in the London Sinfonietta’s 1970s recordings
'A veritable treasure trove for enthusiasts'
Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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