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BEETHOVEN; SIBELIUS Violin Concertos (Tetzlaff)

What we have here is by my calculations Christian Tetzlaff’s third recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, the first two under...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

Imogen Cooper: Iberia y Francia

Imogen Cooper has been travelling and she’d like us to come along. For an artist whose name is frequently associated...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2019

BARTÓK Piano Quintet VERESS String Trio

If you pan back to 1954 in search of the year’s finest music, Vaughan Williams’s Tuba Concerto and Lutosławski’s Concerto...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019

KORNGOLD Symphony. Straussania (Wilson)

Rumours have been circling for a while of a hush-hush project from John Wilson; of a new super-orchestra hand-picked from...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019

WAGNER Lohengrin (Thielemann)

It’s a crucial pleasure to be able to keep in touch now with the latest productions from Wagner HQ thanks...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2019

TCHAIKOVSKY The Queen of Spades (Jansons)

Mariss Jansons has played many hands of The Queen of Spades. Within the past decade alone, the Latvian conductor has...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2019

STRAUSS Salome (Welser-Möst)

Romeo Castellucci’s production of Salome bowled me over at last summer’s Salzburg Festival. I’m pleased to report that it transfers...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2019

ROSSINI Eduardo e Cristina (Gelmetti)

Eduardo e Cristina is the operatic pastiche Rossini cobbled together for Venice’s Teatro San Benedetto in the spring of 1819....

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2019

RIHM Jakob Lenz (Ollu)

‘I can’t bear it any more’, cries the troubled protagonist of Wolfgang Rihm’s chamber opera from 1979, and we’re barely...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019

PUCCINI Madama Butterfly (Wellber)

Forget the cherry blossom and other japonaiserie, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne focuses on the seedier side of the story...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2019

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