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BLACKFORD The Great Animal Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals

The Great Animal Orchestra was premiered this summer at the Cheltenham Festival and this recording was made a few days...

Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2014

CHERUBINI Symphony BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture

The genre of rescue opera runs as a subtextual thread through this intriguing programme, a welcome throwback to more exploratory...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2014

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Concertos

These six – yes, six – Beethoven piano concertos were recorded over a period of years and in different locations....

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014

BAADSVIK; LINDBERG Tuba Concertos

This is Øystein Baadsvik’s third tuba concerto disc for BIS, previous instalments featuring 20th-century and 21st-century repertoire. The three works...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014

WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Last year’s new Salzburg Meistersinger plays in the uniform historical setting of the pre-1848 German Biedermeier era. Herheim, his designers...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2014

STRAUSS Elektra

In my Gramophone Collection on Elektra (9/13), five of the recordings were conducted by Karl Böhm. This one, from the...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2014

SPONTINI La Fuga in Maschera

The first 25 years of Gaspare Spontini’s life, before he moved to Paris, are pretty poorly documented but this new...

Reviewed in issue 10/2014

RAMEAU Hippolyte et Aricie

Rameau...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2014

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

It seems ironic to be sitting down to watch an ambulatory opera production from the comfort of one’s armchair. The...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014

MERCADANTE I Briganti

Mercadante seems to have been born to disappoint. Henry Chorley said as much at the time of the 1836 Paris...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2014

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