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BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations

The ups and downs characterising Christian Leotta’s recent Beethoven sonata cycle spill over into his Diabelli Variations, which has a...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016

JS BACH Violin Sonatas

Midori Seiler’s recording of the unaccompanied Partitas of JS Bach (released five years ago – 4/11), had a number of...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2016

WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

Following her iconoclastic role-reversing 2008 Meistersinger (Opus Arte, 3/11), Katharina Wagner now gets a novel focus on Tristan und Isolde...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2016

STRADELLA La Circe

Stradella’s serenata La Circe was commissioned by Princess Olimpia Aldobrandini, a Florentine whose deceased Roman husbands had been members of...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Le nozze di Figaro

This is the fourth in the series of Mozart opera recordings from the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden masterminded by Yannick Nézet-Séguin...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2016

MOZART Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Soon after the past year’s flurry from Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, 10/15), Nézet-Séguin (DG, 8/15) and the Glyndebourne production by David...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

MARTINŮ Julietta

Do you stay in the dream or wake up? Anticipating the red or blue pill choice offered to the hero...

Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2016

LEHÁR Giuditta

Under the Mediterranean sun, a young soldier falls hard for a free-spirited beauty – and sacrifices honour and happiness in...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016

DONIZETTI Poliuto

It was slightly unfortunate timing that Glyndebourne scheduled the UK professional premiere of Poliuto just six months after Opera Rara...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016

Martha Argerich: Early Recordings

The difficulty in writing about the piano playing of Martha Argerich is that it is now, and always has been,...

Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016

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