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MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Carnaval

Kirill Gerstein writes a thoughtful booklet-note musing on the fact that music’s very elusiveness means that we can create our...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014

LEIGHTON Missa de Gloria. Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes

This is the first time Kenneth Leighton’s organ music has all been recorded by one player on one instrument. To...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2014

JS BACH Trio Sonatas BWV525-530

The distinguished Norwegian organist Bjørn Boysen (b1943) has known these seminal works, written as teaching material for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach,...

Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2014

ZEMLINSKY A Florentine Tragedy

Not premiered until 1917, Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie was something of a latecomer to the fin de siècle party. Based,...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

WAGNER Operatic Excerpts

In January 2013 a brand-new concert hall was opened in Bordeaux, and the following September Paul Daniel took over as...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014

WAGNER The Flying Dutchman

So much of this new Bayreuth Flying Dutchman has such confidence and authority – singing, conducting, abstract video imagery –...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014

STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos

Perhaps more than ever, this Ariadne auf Naxos presents an operatic evening of two halves. Katharina Thoma’s production moves the...

Reviewed in issue AW2014

RACHMANINOV Monna Vanna. Songs

This is a vast improvement on the only other recording of Rachmaninov’s Monna Vanna, released by Chandos in 1992. A...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

MEYERBEER Vasco de Gama

Vasco de Gama had a difficult birth. Meyerbeer began composing it in 1837, set it aside and returned to it...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014

HANDEL. PORPORA Arias

Analekta puts the Italian aria texts (not including translations) online instead of in the booklet but does print long, irrelevant...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014

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