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ATTERBERG Symphonies Nos 2 & 8

As has been remarked in these pages before, Atterberg’s early Second Symphony (1911-12) is tricky to balance. Initially a Romantic...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014

ANDRIESSEN Symphony No 2. Mascherata

Hendrik Andriessen (father of the better-known Louis) is a natural target for the attentions of CPO and the excellent Netherlands...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014

Hommage à Trois

The ‘three’ in question are Haydn, Mozart and – courtesy of a large chunk from Il maestro di cappella –...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014

Tito Gobbi: 100th Anniversary Edition

These three BBC episodes of Great Characters in Opera may be old-school in terms of staging and appearance but they...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014

VOGEL La Toison d'or

If you got stuck on the title, as I did, the list of characters provides a clue: it’s ‘The Golden...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014

VERDI Ernani

With some fine recordings of Verdi’s fifth opera already in the catalogue, this new release from the Austrian Radio archives...

Reviewed in issue 03/2014

SCHREKER Der Schatzgräber

In a bold move, the booklet essay compares Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber (first performed in 1920) with Richard Strauss’s Die...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2014

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

Teodor Currentzis is the artistic director of the opera house in Perm, on the edge of Siberia. As reported in...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014

DONIZETTI Lucrezia Borgia

Having primarily made her name in lyric Mozart and Strauss operas, Renée Fleming has been returning to the bel canto...

Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014

BRITTEN The Turn of the Screw

The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performances of The Turn of the Screw in April last year sadly turned into a...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2014

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