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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3

Ingolf Turban marks 30 years of performing with the release of this recital recorded live in Munich last April. He...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2017

BEETHOVEN; FRANCK Violin Sonatas transcribed for Cello

‘Up high it sounds nasal, and down low it grumbles’: Dvořák’s supposed comment about the solo cello came to mind...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017

ALWYN String Quartets Nos 10 - 13

Although William Alwyn’s extensive catalogue includes three ‘official’ string quartets dating from 1953, 1975 and 1984, his relationship with the...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017

La storia di Orfeo

What a brilliant idea. Taking the best of three different Orpheus operas and weaving them together into a single composite,...

Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017

WAGNER Das Liebesverbot

Wagner’s second complete opera mostly switched allegiance to contemporary Italian (Donizetti, Rossini) and French (Auber, Hérold) models rather than German...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2017

THOMMESSEN The Hermaphrodite

The Hermaphrodite is described as a ‘chamber opera in seven parts’, but that’s only part of the story. The work...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017

ROSSINI Armida

The tale of Rinaldo the Crusader knight caught in the toils of the sorceress Armida had been popular with composers...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017

PUCCINI Turandot

This production from May...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2017

MOZART La Clemenza di Tito

By all accounts, Denis Podalydès’s updated production of Mozart’s late opera seria in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, set in a...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

Sonya Yoncheva: Handel

In her absolute prime at 35, the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has been winning plaudits on both sides of the...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017

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