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STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring. Concerto for 2 Pianos

In August 2015 I assessed a clutch of new recordings of the four-hands version of The Rite of Spring and...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2018

Régine Crespin: A Tribute

To mark the 10th anniversary of Régine Crespin’s death, Warner Classics has gathered together her principal operatic and song recitals,...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2018

Un opéra pour trois rois

This imaginary fête musicale is assembled from assorted works associated with the French court during the reigns of Louis XIV,...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2018

Villazón & Abdrazakov: Duets

The press notes that came with this disc invoke celebrated duo recitals of the past, but the combination of tenor...

Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2018

Pretty Yende: Dreams

Just over a year after she released her debut disc, ‘A Journey’ (11/16), Pretty Yende offers us a follow-up recital...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018

VIVALDI L’incoronazione di Dario

This is a staged equivalent to the CD recording welcomed by David Vickers (Naïve, 7/14). The conductor and most of...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2018

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Tale of Tsar Saltan

I well remember this production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan. In 2008, for the centenary of Rimsky-Korsakov’s death, the...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2018

PIAZZOLLA María de Buenos Aires

‘I play with violence’, Astor Piazzolla once said. ‘My bandoneón must sing and scream. Sometimes I beat the bandoneón up.’...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2018

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Welser-Möst)

A day of torment, caprice and madness is how the key players of Le nozze di Figaro sum up their...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2018

LULLY Alceste

‘Next to Euripides or Gluck, Lully’s Alceste is a joke’, was Joseph Kerman’s withering verdict in Opera as Drama (Knopf:...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2018

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