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BIBER Mystery Sonatas

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas are the best-known works of a composer superficially remembered for the extreme virtuosity...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014

John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection

RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014

STRAUSS Salome

It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

STRAUSS Capriccio

Still a relative rarity in the opera house, Strauss’s last opera benefits perhaps more than any of his other works...

Reviewed in issue 08/2014

ROSSINI Maometto Secondo

Mehmet II was the Ottoman sultan who captured Byzantine Constantinople in 1453. The portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini, on display...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014

ROSSINI Le Comte Ory

The lovely small Zurich Opernhaus is ideal for Rossini – as it is for Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier and their...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2014

PUCCINI Turandot

Long one of my favourite productions of anything, the Andrei Serban Turandot arrives on video, some 30 years after I...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

PUCCINI Madama Butterfly

Musically solid and theatrically intriguing, this Madama Butterfly from Hamburg brings one to ponder whether this opera is truly about...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014

PUCCINI La fanciulla del West

Like many a live performance of La fanciulla del West, this one takes a while before everybody is warmed up...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014

Emma Matthews sings Mozart Arias

Emma Matthews is a soprano who has appeared in an impressive range of operas in her native Australia. Her repertoire...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014

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