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BELLINI I Capuleti e I Montecchi; Norma

The pacing of Bellini’s dramas is a conundrum that should bother a director as much as the maestro. If a...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2016

A Tribute to Evgeny Svetlanov

Evgeny Svetlanov was a giant among Soviet conductors. Formerly at the Bolshoi Theatre, from 1965 he was Principal Conductor of...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

Alison Balsom: Jubilo

There tends to be a ‘usual suspects’ element to most Christmassy discs, but Alison Balsom’s collaboration with the orchestra of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2016

Danse Macabre

This is a curiously old-fashioned sort of disc – a programme of orchestral pieces by different composers, linked only by...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016

SINOPOLI Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol 35

Until a heart attack felled him in 2001, Giuseppe Sinopoli had been a loving and assiduous curator of the ‘Dresden...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016

WAGNER The Ring – An Orchestral Adventure

In January Kristjan Järvi released, with his young Baltic Sea Philharmonic, a recording of his own reduction of Tchaikovsky’s Swan...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4. The Nutcracker

A Nutcracker is for life, not just for Christmas. Or perhaps not. Valery Gergiev has abandoned his 1998 Philips recording...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016

VON REZNICEK Violin Concerto. Till Eulenspiegel

The works on this disc – part of a leisurely continuing series from CPO – date from the period between...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016

PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet

Norwegian orchestras have been here before…up to a point. Mariss Jansons set down two suites from Romeo and Juliet with...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016

MOZART Complete Violin Concertos

Mozart’s violin concertos are never far from the centre of any violinist’s repertoire. Written while the composer was still a...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016

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