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BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra. Dance Suite

How many labels still offer such generous repertoire-driven selections in physical format? Some years after Chandos released his successful Bartók...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2017

AHO Concerto for Soprano Saxophone. Quintet

BIS’s long-term commitment to the music of Kalevi Aho (impressive even by the standards of this label) continues with a disc...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017

PUCCINI La Bohème (Noseda)

Staged to mark the 120th anniversary of the 1896 premiere of La bohème at Turin’s old Teatro Regio (destroyed by...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

OSTRČIL Jack's Kingdom (Honzovo království)

Usually known in English – if at all – as Johnny’s Kingdom, the satirical fairy tale Honzovo království was the last opera...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017

HANDEL Opera Arias (Jaroussky)

An all-Handel album from Philippe Jaroussky was always waiting to happen. And it’s refreshing that the French falsettist – as much...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2017

GLASS The Trial

Music Theatre Wales’s heartening and astutely developed relationship with Philip Glass is over 25 years old and reached its apex when...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017

DVOŘÁK Rusalka

First, a brief geography lesson. Bydgoszcz (nicknamed Little Berlin) is the eighth largest city in Poland, with a population of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017

WAGNER Siegfried (van Zweden)

A recent article from the Wagner world drew attention to how pleased the composer was by his children’s reaction to...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017

VINCI Didone Abbandonata (Ipata)

Leonardo Vinci was a busy bee in the winter of 1725‑26, working simultaneously on three operas: Astianatte for Naples, Didone...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2017

VERDI I due Foscari

It’s little over a year since the last DVD of Verdi’s I due Foscari starring Plácido Domingo and Francesco Meli was...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017

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