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...
It isn’t every day that an opera house opens its doors for the first time. Hardly surprising, then, that the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue:
Compared to the task of sorting a performing version of Borodin’s unfinished 1869 87 opera, choosing an edition of a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2014
There’s no shortage of good filmed versions of Carmen and one of the best, from Covent Garden, like this one,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
It’s only right that any performance of Lulu should revolve around its protagonist. But the way that the Canadian soprano...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
Whether it’s by playing solo Bach with astonishing physical and intellectual dexterity, jamming with the likes of Yo Yo Ma,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2014
Wagner’s operas have inspired innumerable piano transcriptions from Carl Tausig to Zoltán Kocsis but those to which pianists most frequently...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
Marc-André Hamelin’s stature, extraordinary from the start, increases with every new issue. And here in his latest album he subdues...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
To say that Fantasio was one of Offenbach’s more obscure operas would be putting it mildly. A failure at the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014
Patricia Petibon’s photo along with some art nouveau-ish script implies music from the belle époque. But no. This far more...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
After her programme of Baroque arias in ‘Drama Queens’ (Virgin, 1/13), Joyce DiDonato moves on a century to treat us...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2014
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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