Opera

Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle Elena Zhidkova, Willard White; London SO/Valery Gergiev 'This is the LSO's most successful disc under Gergiev's leadership'

Michael Tanner

Published: August 28, 2009 at 3:08 pm

'This is the LSO's most successful disc under Gergiev's leadership' Michael Tanner

Bartók Bluebeard's Castle Elena Zhidkova, Willard White; London Symphony Orchestra/Valery Gergiev

LSO Live LSO 0685 (hybrid CD/SACD) 58:53 mins

For a full review of this disc, take a look at the October issue of BBC Music Magazine

Audio clip: Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle – Second Door

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Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.