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A ground-breaking recording of a ground-breaking American musical [PCG]

A superior reissue of Peter Hall’s other superlative Britten production from Glyndebourne [PCG]

A wonderfully refined and also exciting new version [SB]

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

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

Newly edited Puccini operatic suites receive glowing performances [PCG]

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

The last instalment of the Decca ‘Ring’ enhanced by remastering in magnificent sound [JQ]

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

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

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

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

Another triumph for Pristine’s re-masterings of the Boult/Decca cycle [PCG]

Pristine remastering of the first Boult cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies reaches a triumphant conclusion [PCG]

An interesting compilation of music by the “English waltz king” who outlived his era by half a century [PCG]

An imaginative and involving production, but flawed by some intrusive and insensitive vulgarities [PCG]

A sampler for the newly remastered Decca/Solti Ring demonstrates that the improvements are more than simply cosmetic [PCG]

A reissue of a unique and valuable recording undermined by catastrophic failures of presentation [PCG]

A delightful baroque double bill in an enjoyable period production and setting [PCG]

Slatkin’s cycle emphasises the composer’s structural mastery [PCG]

A welcome sound première recording for one of Cavalli’s more dramatically involving operas [PCG]

A beautiful new work from Estonia which will add to the growing reputation of the composer [PCG]

Triumph! Rejoice! Victory! Solti’s Ring, at last, as Wagner intended! [PCG]

What should have been an important and innovative release ruined by basic failures of presentation [PCG]