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VERDI Aida

Opera houses are on a hiding to nothing when staging Verdi’s Aida. Audiences crave the sort of spectacle usually reserved...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2015

STRAUSS Die Frau ohne Schatten

The Strauss anniversary year might have offered a fair number of performances to keep FroSch-fanciers happy, but not much of...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015

STRAUSS Elektra

This new issue enters a crowded field but on paper has some unusual characteristics to distinguish it. First is the...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015

RAVEL L'enfant et les sortilèges. Ma Mère l'Oye

Here is that odious Child again, recorded in 2013, a few months before the recently issued live performance conducted by...

Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2015

Röschmann: Mozart Arias

Dorothea Röschmann has sung all the Mozart roles represented here at either the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, or both....

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015

Edgar Moreau: Giovincello

When the young French cellist Edgar Moreau released his debut album last year (6/14) it was with a relatively soft...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2015

VIVALDI Il teatro alla moda

Finding a marketing angle on a new Vivaldi concerto release is sometimes an exercise in harmless deception, so it is...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2015

SIBELIUS Complete Symphonies

The close proximity of Simon Rattle’s latest survey of the symphonies with the majestic Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only serves to...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2015

SIBELIUS Scaramouche

We have reached the sixth and final instalment in this fascinating series from Turku. It’s given over to just one...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015

SCRIABIN Symphonies Nos 3 & 4

If some composers generate floods of discs when one of their anniversaries comes around, the centenary of Scriabin’s death has...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12q

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