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BARTÓK Violin Concertos (Schmid)

Every encounter I’ve so far had with Benjamin Schmid’s playing has proved enjoyable. An all-round musician who can adapt to...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18

PISTON; JONES; ALBERT 'American Symphonies'

Piston’s Sixth Symphony (1955) has fared well on disc, this being the fourth recording presently available (Morton Gould’s is nla)....

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Sawallisch)

Bayreuth followers will remember this performance’s unofficial release (and that of a year before from the same basic cast) on...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW18

VERDI Il Trovatore (Farnes)

Only unveiled at Covent Garden little over two years ago, David Bösch’s production has already done good service for the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

VERDI Nabucco (Oren)

Everyone has a clear, if misguided, idea of what to expect from opera productions at the Arena di Verona –...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

REIMANN L'Invisible (Runnicles)

The source of Aribert Reimann’s ninth opera, premiered in Berlin last autumn, seems a logical follow-up to his previous straight...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW18

PUCCINI La fanciulla del West (Valčuha)

Puccini’s all-American opus La fanciulla del West, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, can be a difficult one...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

MOZART La Clemeza di Tito ( Nézet-Séguin)

The Baden-Baden Festspielhaus’s concert cycle of Mozart’s mature operas, sponsored by Rolex, always starring Rolando Villazón and conducted sagaciously by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW18

MOZART Bastien und Bastienne. Grabmusik (Page)

While Bastien und Bastienne is not a work you will encounter very often, the real rarity here is the Grabmusik,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW18

LINDPAINTNER Il vespro siciliano

Mendelssohn thought him the greatest conductor of his day, and Schumann and Spohr enthused over his operas. Posterity, however, was...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18

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