Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
In his first production as Zurich Intendant, Andreas Homoki has gone all out to concentrate on the psychological and socio-political...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
After the success of his first opera, Oberto, Verdi was contracted to write three more for La Scala. Sad to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
It seems a pity that the initiative and success at Turin’s Teatro Regio of the wide-ranging Gianandrea Noseda should be...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2015
This constitutes the third release in a loose Straussian triptych from C Major, following DVD/Blu-rays of Capriccio and Arabella featuring...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2015
Like Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour (Glossa, 12/14), Les fêtes de Polymnie is an opera-ballet. But whereas the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
‘That man has a noble style, the like of which I have found in no one else,’ remarked Gluck of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015
Reinhard Keiser’s formative musical training was in Leipzig, similar to the slightly younger cluster of Graupner, Fasch, Heinichen and Telemann....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2015
Is it really 32 years since the one – and only – performance of Brian’s vibrant, surreal anti-war opera The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015
Robert and Clara Schumann join forces on this disc, and in one case their emotional closeness triggers a possible musical...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015
The most amiable of Britain’s early Hanoverian monarchs seems to have been Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), wife (and cousin) of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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