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PUCCINI La fanciulla del West (Valčuha)

Puccini’s all-American opus La fanciulla del West, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, can be a difficult one...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

MOZART La Clemeza di Tito ( Nézet-Séguin)

The Baden-Baden Festspielhaus’s concert cycle of Mozart’s mature operas, sponsored by Rolex, always starring Rolando Villazón and conducted sagaciously by...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW18

MOZART Bastien und Bastienne. Grabmusik (Page)

While Bastien und Bastienne is not a work you will encounter very often, the real rarity here is the Grabmusik,...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW18

LINDPAINTNER Il vespro siciliano

Mendelssohn thought him the greatest conductor of his day, and Schumann and Spohr enthused over his operas. Posterity, however, was...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18

LACHNER Catharina Cornaro (Weikert)

Listening to Franz Lachner’s Catharina Cornaro, one can hear why it might have held a position in the repertoire of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18

BERG Wozzeck (Jurowski)

As a functionary behind a desk between 1915 and 1918, Berg had what used to be known as a good...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW18

Debussy … et le jazz: Preludes for a Quartet

What could the three dots of the title mean? It could be that the artists were trying to find an...

Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW18

A Courtly Garland for Baroque Trumpet (Farley)

Robert Farley is one of that elite company of baroque trumpeters whose members you will often hear in the top...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW18

Mischa Maisky: Adagietto

Health warning: listening to this disc in a single sitting may exceed your Recommended Daily Allowance of vibrato. Even without...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18

STRAVINSKY The Soldier's Tale (Simovic)

The actor Malcolm Sinclair joins seven players from the LSO for this striking new recording of Stravinsky’s cautionary tale, directed...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18

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