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OK, so this is never going to be a staple of the repertoire and that is pare of its attraction on disc. Thomas's rarer-than-rare opera, about a woman who seems to enjoy tormenting her multiple suitors, is an outmoded comedy of manners. But it also features a sparkling score and is very ably...

Mahler always played to the strengths of a conductor who enjoyed following his own stylistic path. This is typically idiosyncratic, but on

This must be something of a golden age for Bach cantata recordings. With the standard being flown by epic, high-profile series from the likes of John Eliot Gardiner and Masaaki

Finley and Dorothea Röschmann. And Antonio Pappano is turning into a great music director - one equally at home in Mozart, Wagner or Verdi. A smashing production to boot!

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TRACK 10 WAGNER The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Soloists; Sadler's Wells Opera Reginald Goodall Chandos

A recent US newspaper casually threw out a handful of names as examples of great conductors, bracketing Gustavo Dudamel with the likes of Claudio Abbado. The young hotshot has had mixed reviews thus far in these pages and, though nobody doubts his potential, he still seemed far from deserving to...