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MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Jurowski)

A Mahler Fourth as insightful and as individual as we have come to expect from this source. How rarely we...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019

GRIEG Lyric Pieces MENDELSSOHN Lieder Ohne Worte (Kozhukhin)

Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin’s compilation of miniatures...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019

Handel's Queens

This is not the first time Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, the star sopranos Handel engaged for his London operas...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019

VERDI I due Foscari (Repušić)

When Achille De Bassini created the role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari in 1844, he was in...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia (Oren)

The great Italian baritone Leo Nucci is one of music’s indestructibles. How else can one explain a 76-year-old holding spellbound...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2019

MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Carydis)

This production from last year’s Salzburg Festival has much charm but it is fundamentally so wrong-headed that I hardly know...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2019

MARSCHNER Hans Heiling (Beermann)

A spot of research – but not in the regular catalogues – should uncover around half a dozen recordings of...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2019

LEHÁR Die lustige Witwe (Malwitz)

The Merry Widow wasn’t born a billionairess, and before Lehár’s masterpiece was a worldwide smash – and long before it...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019

KAMINSKY As One

This is really rather good. Styled a chamber opera, As One (2014) is also a sequence of 15 songs (with...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019

FLURY A Florentine Tragedy; The Death of Sappho (Mann)

Puccini and Busoni were among the composers who thought about setting Oscar Wilde’s steamy play A Florentine Tragedy as an...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019

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