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BEETHOVEN Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1 (Argerich)

Seiji Ozawa is 82 and Martha Argerich is 76, yet they go at Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto like a pair...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018

BARTÓK Piano Concerto No 3. Concerto for Orchestra

Late, late, Bartók – the pair of masterpieces that could and would have turned his fortunes around during his final...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018

CPE BACH Piano Concertos WQ1, 45 & 15

This is a disc to reinforce my feeling that Emanuel Bach’s keyboard concertos are notoriously hard to bring off on...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2018

Nina Stemme: Wagner

The Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is, of course, pre eminent among contemporary Wagnerian singers. But the market choices of today...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2018

VIVALDI Dorilla in Tempe (Fasolis)

The heroic-pastoral melodrama Dorilla in Tempe (Venice, 1726) was revived by Vivaldi in 1728 (Venice) and 1732 (Prague), but the...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2018

VERDI Rigoletto (Orbelian)

This new Rigoletto from Delos tragically serves as a valedictory recording. The death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky last November has robbed...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

VERDI Otello (Foster)

Nikolai Schukoff is Austrian, Melody Moore and Lester Lynch are from the United States. Their names might be unfamiliar but...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2018

VERDI Ernani

It’s difficult to understand why Verdi’s Ernani struggles to get performances. It hasn’t played at the Wiener Staatsoper since 2002...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades (Jansons)

Tchaikovsky identified closely with Herman, the anti-hero of his opera The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), whose gambling addiction leads...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018

STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier (Weigle)

Robert Carsen – in both this present staging and his previous essay (also on DVD: ArtHaus, 9/10) – is among...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2018

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