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KÁLMÁN Kaiserin Josephine (Burkert)

If you wanted to place a final full-stop to the ‘silver age’ of Viennese operetta, you could do worse than...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2019

HANDEL Serse (Emelyanychev)

By all accounts the castrato Caffarelli outdid even his fellow-falsettist Senesino in boorish disregard for colleagues and audiences. Lateness and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2019

GAVEAUX Léonore (Brown)

When reading the programme at a performance of Fidelio, or inspecting a CD or DVD booklet, have you ever wondered...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2019

BIZET Carmen (von Karajan)

In some ways this is a double historical release – a performance from over 50 years ago and a preservation...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2019

BERG Wozzeck (Albrecht)

Without matching the tight ensemble or aiming for the taut pacing of Teodor Currentzis at the Bolshoi, Marc Albrecht embeds...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2019

FINNISSY Vocal Works, 1974-2015

This is one of those recordings where composer and performers seem uniquely matched. One senses a degree of commitment that...

Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019

BARTÓK Racines (Florent Boffard)

Florent Boffard’s credentials as an exponent of modern music are impeccable and well known, as are his recordings. It may...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2019

LYATOSHYNSKY Symphony No 3, ‘Peace Shall Defeat War’

Boris Lyatoshynsky (1895-1968) was a slightly older Ukrainian contemporary of Shostakovich, a pupil of Glière. His work was initially very...

Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019

MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Gardiner)

John Eliot Gardiner’s recordings of Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea both stretch back several decades but it has taken until...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019

Münchner Philharmoniker 125 Years

This anniversary set gets off to a solid start with a weighty, plain-spoken 1953 Eroica and a pastorally accented 1956...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2019

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