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LAITMAN The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter has inspired several operas, including rarely performed versions with music by Walter Damrosch, Fredric Kroll...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017

BEETHOVEN Symphony No 9 (Bernard)

The catalogue is bursting with recordings of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that are undeniably flawed yet nevertheless contain enough points of...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Chih-Long Hu)

Bach’s Goldberg Variations abounds in world-class piano recordings, including several memorable recent versions covered by yours truly in these pages. That...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017

ARGENTO The Andrée Expedition. From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

Naxos’s policy of devoting single discs to single composers has methodically expanded the repertoire and given important young performers like Brian Mulligan and Timothy...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017

AGÓCS The Debrecen Passion

The music of Kati Agócs on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s new recording shimmers and seethes, reflecting the tensions that the...

Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017

Jonas Kaufmann: L’Opéra

A dapper Jonas Kaufmann smoulders in the auditorium of the exquisite Palais Garnier, beneath Marc Chagall’s celebrated ceiling paintings, on...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017

Angela Gheorghiu: Eternamente

‘I want to be remembered eternally through my voice’, Angela Gheorghiu remarks in the publicity material for her first studio recording in...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2017

Michael Spyres: Espoir

With these two discs Opera Rara moves away from its predominantly Italian repertoire into territory occupied by the Palazzetto Bru...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2017

VERDI Don Carlo. Il Trovatore (Daniel Oren)

These DVDs (available also on Blu-ray and audio-only CD) give us two comparable Verdi productions from two very different Italian...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2017

STRAUSS Elektra. Salome (Solti)

Products of the heyday of the early stereo era, Solti’s recordings of Strauss’s two ‘stage tone poems’, as Norman Del...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2017

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