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...
With Don Giovanni productions placing the opera in nearly every imaginable time and place, this one may be the only...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2015
Metastasio’s libretto Siroe, re di Persia is based loosely on the life of the Persian King Khosrau II, whose aggressive...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015
Siroe has been relatively little recorded among Handel’s operas; versions by Rudolph Palmer (Newport Classics, 5/92 – nla) and Andreas...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015
Well, well. It was Hahn who edited the score of Rameau’s Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, the opéra-ballet...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2015
We still await a stunning all-round version of this seminal drama on disc. To encompass fully a heroine already at...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2015
This Aix-en-Provence production (2013) represents the first time something close to the complete score of Elena (1659) has been performed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2015
Such are the purely aural delights of Bellini’s version of the Romeo and Juliet story – based on an earlier,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 2/2000
Several of The Hilliard Ensemble’s earliest recordings were of 15th-century English music, so it is fitting that they should return...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2015
Almost 50 choirbooks now survive from the copying workshop of Petrus Alamire, who happens to have been active as a...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2015
Ever innovative in their programming, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen juxtapose Domenico Scarlatti’s beautiful 10-part Stabat mater – stile antico...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2015
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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