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Metastasio’s drama about the Roman patriot Cato’s preference to commit suicide rather than submit to the dictator Julius Caesar was...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017
It is extraordinary to think that a generation or two ago Gluck’s tragic heroines were being sung by sopranos such...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2017
Vincenzo Bellini’s first opera Adelson e Salvini is a real rarity – so the perfect candidate for an Opera Rara...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017
Heike Scheele’s design for Munich’s new 2016 Ballo takes no prisoners in terms of stage direction-obeying literalism. We get an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2017
Ruby Hughes is a young soprano who won both first prize and the audience prize at the London Handel competition...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2017
‘Haydn is writing with new zeal since he has had the good fortune to lose his nasty wife’, noted the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
The still-young winner of the 2006 Leeds Competition presented his Beethoven credentials more than impressively with the Hammerklavier and Waldstein...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
‘So here are 3 degrees of reimagination for your consideration. My own minimalist effort, Bach’s mild refashioning of BWV1006 with...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2017
String players of a certain vintage might remember the excitement caused in 1991 by the publication of Max Bruch’s A...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017
This is James Ehnes’s first disc of Beethoven sonatas and I very much hope it will herald a complete survey....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
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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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