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MAYR Che originali! DONIZETTI Pigmalione (Capuano)

This is a very apt pairing, as Giovanni Simone Mayr (born Johann Simon Mayr) was one of Donizetti’s teachers, who...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2018

LODER Raymond & Agnes (Bonynge)

Raymond and Agnes. The title doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, nor does it readily suggest an atmosphere of mystery...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018

LEHÁR Das Land des Lächelns (Luisi)

‘My dear Richard! Here you have your Tauber-Lied!!’ scribbled Franz Lehár on the score of ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’,...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018

HOLTEN Gesualdo Shadows

The year 2017 may have delivered the first opera about Claudio Monteverdi (at least according to the creators of La...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

HANDEL Agrippina (Hengelbrock)

Robert Carsen’s production of Agrippina (Venice, 1709), filmed across two performances at the Theater an der Wien in March 2016,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2018

DONIZETTI La Favorite (Luisi)

Donizetti abandoned work on Le duc d’Albe when the director of the Paris Opéra, Léon Pillet, objected that there would...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2018

SAINT-SAENS Piano Concertos (Lortie; Chamayou)

It is perhaps unfortunate that I began my listening with the second work on Louis Lortie’s disc, the G minor...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018

Anne Akiko Meyers: Mirror in Mirror

You can rely on Anne Akiko Meyers to deliver something more than a violin concerto with fill-ups, as this latest...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018

TINOCO The Blue Voice of the Water

Anyone who has spent time on the Algarve knows how rich and varied its maritime life is. In expanding upon...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW18

STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra. Don Quixote (Weigle)

Sebastian Weigle and his Frankfurt orchestra here reach the sixth volume of their survey of Strauss orchestral works. In doing...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2018

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