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...
A famous pianist (I shan’t say who) to whom I was speaking recently said I really should hear this young...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015
Two new sets of Chopin Etudes from two Russians. They’re presented quite differently, Lev Vinocour gravely introduced as ‘a rare...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2015
‘Who is the grail?’ Parsifal’s apparently naive question receives an ingeniously literal answer at the climax of a Communion scene...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015
Dmitri Tcherniakov has nothing to say about Il trovatore, and he says it badly. There is no doubt, after a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015
Madcap Florentine violinist Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 1768) composed Adriano in Siria (1735) for London’s Opera of the Nobility. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
When this 2014 Salzburg Easter Festival production of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s final opera transferred to Dresden, Renée Fleming was replaced...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2015
Of Saint-Saëns’s 12 operas, only the second, Samson et Dalila, is well known. Now, thanks to the enterprise of the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2015
If the name Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) rings any bells, it is probably as the composer of a chamber work, Les...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2015
For those who mainly know Milhaud for his exotic, jazzy, congenial orchestral suites, his terse string quartets and eye-crossing productivity...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2015
This production is something of a family affair because the stage director is the conductor’s son. Set in a revolving...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
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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