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...
Two exceptional recordings taped eight years apart, both live: the Eroica at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall in September 2005,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015
The Swiss-Chinese pianist...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
Lorenzo Gatto is well equipped to play the Beethoven Concerto. His clear, ringing tone, coupled with an ability to play...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 03/2015
The conclusion to Frankfurt’s current Ring presents an unashamedly straightforward reading of the work that will appeal to those who...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
Given that Jonas Kaufmann has recently taken on the role of Des Grieux, first in London and then in Munich,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015
Though hardly a star vehicle, this Dialogues of the Carmelites features four celebrated Gallic sopranos, any one of whom would...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2015
Like the much-missed Lucia Popp, Simona aturová is a Slovak soprano from Bratislava. Her Haydn disc (Orfeo) was an Editor’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2015
Like other contemporary second-stage verismo dramas, Adriana Lecouvreur is chock-a-block with unfulfilled sexual promise and obsessive moving of period furniture....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
The latest addition to the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s series of once well-known, now forgotten, French operas takes us to a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015
Babies suffer a dire fate in opera – tossed into the fire (Il trovatore) or thrown under the ice (Jenůfa)...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns 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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