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The warmest welcome for a superb new realisation of Delius’s greatest work of incidental music [PCG]

The first-ever Faust opera based on Goethe – and from a feminine perspective [PCG]

Bizet’s L’Arlésienne returns to its original theatrical roots, and the revelation is enchanting in the hands of Plasson [PCG]

A Wagner production from hell to be avoided at all possible costs [PCG]

A warm welcome for the complete surviving piano music of a totally forgotten, surprisingly innovative composer [PCG]

Rossini standards held high in a new production of The Lady of the Lake [PCG]

Newly edited Puccini operatic suites receive glowing performances [PCG]

A musically splendid new video production of Delibes’s opera can do little to mask the more unsavoury aspects of the story [PCG]

Dame Janet Baker’s unparalleled stage performance of Orfeo makes a triumphant return to the catalogues [PCG]

A wonderfully refined and also exciting new version [SB]

Simon Rattle’s traversal of the Ring finally reaches Siegfried, with highly recommendable results [PCG]

Birgit Nilsson’s first Turandot now remastered on Pristine Audio brings the recording back into the field of comparison [PCG]

A valiant effort all-around but the cast is largely disappointing in vocal accomplishment [MP]

Excellent recordings of three highly imaginative scores [JQ]

A classic vintage account of a complex, absorbing, yet neglected opera in excellent mono sound, sung by a stellar cast [RMo]

A new recording of Busoni’s operatic masterpiece which falls short of expectations in a number of aspects [PCG]

A pioneering version still has appealing elements despite the appearance of many later rivals [PCG]

A collection of Stokowski’s live performances from the end of his career is inevitably something of a mixed bag [PCG]

A valuable Penderecki rediscovery undermined by problems of preparation and presentation [PCG]

Langgaard’s richly iconoclastic opera undermined and subverted by an over-rich iconoclastic staging [PCG]

A most welcome addition to the catalogue [PCG]

A most welcome reissue for an essential recording of Koechlin’s complete Jungle Book settings [PCG]

Three most engaging works from the pen of a neglected composer [RMay]

A landmark recording revealed in the stunning realism of a new transfer on SACD [JQ]