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Gustav Mahler in Toblach

Sometimes brazen insensitivity can be instructive. Turn to track 2 of I went out this morning and listen to Mahler’s...

Reviewed in issue 11/1999

Boieldieu La Calife de Bagdad

Question: in which nineteenth-century French opera does the heroine sing an aria called ''Depuis le jour''? Answer: Boieldieu's Le Calife...

Reviewed by Patrick O'Connor in issue: 9/1994

R. Strauss Elektra

“This complex score needs tremendous transparency – transparency as the equivalent of perspective in art” – so says Barenboim in...

Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 7/1996

Stravinsky Sacred Choral Works

Only rarely have recordings of Stravinsky's choral compositions used ''children's voices'' when he asked for them. It is easy enough...

Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1991

Bach Alles mit Gott, BWV1127; Arias & Choruses

Earlier this year, musicologist Michael Maul discovered the enchanting aria Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn’ ihn, written by Bach...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2006

Tito Schipa sings Opera Arias and Songs

The word 'garbo' (see the Italian dictionary) means, among other things, ''elegance'', ''grace'', ''courtesy''. By association, and in matters of...

Reviewed in issue 2/1989

Puccini Manon Lescaut

This, you might say, is not so much a performance of Manon Lescaut as of Puccini's less familiar opera Chevalier...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 10/1991

Brahms Violin Sonatas

I had not realized that there are already 19 versions of the three Brahms violin sonatas currently available. Many of...

Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1993

Delibes Lakmé

Opera audiences in nineteenth-century Paris may never have visited India, but they loved to dream about it. After the successes...

Reviewed in issue 12/1998

Pierne Cydalise et le chevre-pied

In 1922 lovers of traditional French ballet had weathered a particularly protracted season of the Ballets Russes at the Opera,...

Reviewed in issue 5/2001

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