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BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto (Haitink; Equilbey)

This new LSO Live disc brings together two of Bernard Haitink’s previously released recordings, presumably in honour of the conductor’s...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019

Olga Peretyatko: Mozart +

There’s a neat concept behind Olga Peretyatko’s new disc: putting familiar Mozart arias in context by programming them alongside his...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2019

VERDI I Lombardi (Bosch)

Recorded at last year’s Heidenheim Festival, this audio-only version of Verdi’s fourth opera comes hard on the heels of Michele...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

THOMPSON The Mask in the Mirror

Richard Thompson’s chamber opera The Mask in the Mirror (2012) tells the story of the relationship between Paul Laurence Dunbar...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019

SCHOECK Das Schloss Dürande (Venzago)

One could be forgiven for not being familiar with Othmar Schoeck’s 1943 opera Das Schloss Dürande, with a libretto loosely...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019

PUCCINI Tosca (Thielemann)

The first notes to sound in the Grosses Festspielhaus are gunshots and police sirens, a subterranean shootout in which a...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2019

HEINICHEN Flavio Crispo

Flavio Crispo (1719/20) was abandoned during rehearsals. According to the eyewitness Quantz, the castrato Senesino lost his temper, tore up...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2019

GLUCK Orohée et Euridice (Mariotti)

On August 2, 1774, Gluck presented Orphée et Euridice at the Paris Opéra. It was an expanded version, now called...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2019

GÁL Das Lied der Nacht (Hotz)

‘One of the most powerful operatic experiences ever!’ was how one critic described Das Lied der Nacht after its Breslau...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

CHABRIER L'Étoile (Fournillier)

Given its growing popularity, it comes as something of a surprise to discover that Chabrier’s wonderful 1877 opéra-bouffe has for...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019

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