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Review of JS BACH Cantatas 76, 79, 80

JS BACH Cantatas 76, 79, 80

Recorded live during the...

Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018

Review of TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake (Jurowski)

TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake (Jurowski)

Vladimir Jurowski has a beef with ballet companies and the 1895 revision of Swan Lake. In last month’s enthralling ‘The...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018

Review of MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Harding)

MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Harding)

Bells up; with the greatest vehemence; hurriedly, ie carelessly throughout. Mahler’s Fifth is peppered with such imprecations, as well as...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018

Review of LANGGAARD Symphonies 2 & 6 (Oramo)

LANGGAARD Symphonies 2 & 6 (Oramo)

The follow-up to their impressive showing in Per Nørgård’s First and Eighth Symphonies (8/14) finds Sakari Oramo and the Vienna...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018

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Review of JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Hahn)

JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 (Hahn)

For all the appreciable virtues offered by recent contenders in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas field, I cannot think of...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018

Review of Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Live recordings 1994-2016

Dmitri Hvorostovsky: Live recordings 1994-2016

The late Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang 10 roles at the Wiener Staatsoper. Nine of them are represented on this Orfeo disc...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018

Review of WAGNER Götterdämmerung (van Zweden)

WAGNER Götterdämmerung (van Zweden)

At the end of the day – which we have now reached for this live Hong Kong concert Ring cycle...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018

Review of WAGNER Der Fliegende Holländer (Sawallisch)

WAGNER Der Fliegende Holländer (Sawallisch)

Clearly one of Wieland Wagner’s great New Bayreuth nights. Orfeo is to be congratulated on putting it out despite the...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018

Review of SALIERI Les Horaces (Rousset)

SALIERI Les Horaces (Rousset)

In response to the first performance of Salieri’s Les Horaces (Versailles, 1786), an eyewitness reported ‘there cannot be a more...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018

Review of PUCCINI La Bohème (Pappano)

PUCCINI La Bohème (Pappano)

The retirement of John Copley’s 1974 production of La bohème was met with something approaching national mourning by many opera-goers,...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018


 

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