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BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto. Triple Concerto

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a festive work for the Christmas season, argues Thomas Albertus Irnberger in an extensive booklet note....

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17

BEETHOVEN Complete Symphonies (Blomstedt)

When imported to the UK late in 1981, Herbert Blomstedt’s first Beethoven cycle gained further appeal through the inclusion of miniature...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17

Stravaganza d’Amore! The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court, 1589‑1608’

This two-record set takes as its starting point the various strains of dramatic music that fed into early Florentine opera,...

Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW17

Ann Hallenberg : Carnevale 1729

Ann Hallenberg’s inquisitive forays researched in partnership with her musicologist husband Holger Schmidt-Hallenberg are never merely run-of-the-mill recitals – as has...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW17

WAGNER Parsifal (Haenchen)

Whatever else Parsifal is about, we may agree that its ending represents the opening up of a closed society. That...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17

WAGNER Lohengrin (Thielemann)

German interpreters have long dreamt of performing Wagner with star singers from the supposedly ‘opposite’ Italian or French vocal cultures,...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17

VERDI Macbeth (Conlon)

To be undertaking new roles in major houses (and in a new Fach) well into your seventies – not to mention...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17

STRAVINSKY Le Rossignol

With a composition history that straddles the period of the composer’s three breakthrough works for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, The Nightingale in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

STRAUSS Die Liebe der Danae

Straussians might have high hopes for this DVD. It captures the homecoming last year of Strauss’s penultimate opera to the site of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17

LEVINAS Le Petit Prince

Marks out of ten for product management: zero. Here we have an audio recording of an opera sung in French with no...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17

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