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Strauss Gala Concert

Numerous fine ideas here – which only half worked. An all-Richard Strauss gala makes sense for Dresden (one of the...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2015

ROSSINI William Tell

Verdi-Wagner year fell in 2013. That was also the year in which two dauntless Rossini festivals decided to stage, complete...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015

REIMANN Lear; SALLINEN King Lear

Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015

RAMEAU Castor & Pollux

Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s third opera, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Preceded by an old-fashioned Prologue...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

MOZART Opera Arias and Overtures

In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015

MOZART The Magic Flute

As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015

METCALF Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood must be the most celebrated radio play of all time. The original 1954 BBC broadcast...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2015

GASPARINI Il Bajazet

Handel completed Tamerlano in advance of the 1724-25 season, but the tenor Francesco Borosini’s arrival in London prompted Handel to...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015

The Steinmeyer Organ in Nidaros Cathedral

With a specification that runs to 146 stops and an amazing 36 couplers, the 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Trondheim is...

Reviewed in issue 07/2015

Christopher Herrick: Power of Life

It may not go under the title of ‘Organ Fireworks’ but this latest offering from Christopher Herrick has all the...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015

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