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Music in England between Purcell’s death and Handel’s arrival 15 years later remains a black hole except to a handful...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2016
Pavol Breslik, the Tamino on the Simon Rattle/Robert Carsen DVD of Die Zauberflöte from Baden-Baden (EuroArts, 12/13) here presents a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2016
The previous instalments in Theodor Currentzis’s survey of the Mozart-da Ponte operas tended to be enthralling and exasperating by turns....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2016
First performed in Monte Carlo in 1895, La Jacquerie is almost invariably described as Lalo’s last opera, though the bulk...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
As the curtains part during Glinka’s whiplash Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila, the Bolshoi audience breaks into applause. Is it...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
Only 300 people could fit into Aldeburgh’s tiny Jubilee Hall for the premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1960....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2016
Wozzeck sees red: the red moon; a bloody knife; flames in the sky. Zurich Opera’s production, directed by Andreas Homoki,...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2016
The annual Husum disc, issued just before the succeeding year’s festival opens, aims to represent every pianist invited to play....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
There are few young pianists around today to whose latest release one looks forward as eagerly as one does to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2016
Look at the close-ups on any YouTube video of Tatyana Nikolaieva’s pianism and you will see on full display the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2016
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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
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Rob Cowan on three collections of vintage recorded performances
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