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...
The latest of Cecilia Bartoli’s exuberant explorations of neglected areas of 17th- and 18th-century opera has journeyed north to St...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2014
‘Some say, compar’d to Bononcini / That Mynheer Handel’s but a Ninny. / Others aver, that he to Handel /...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2014
Here is a dilemma. Is the presence of Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo enough to justify a purchase, or does...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014
It is a minor miracle that a score so well paced and characterised, so well written for its many voices,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2014
Long dismissed by the squeamish as tastelessly voyeuristic but admired by many whose attitudes to the composer were generally far...
Reviewed in issue 11/2014
Rameau’s opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes (mostly 1735) examines why true love seems to have been abandoned in Europe and can...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
A number of contemporary operas have embraced the 21st century by taking recent historical events as their starting point. American...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2014
The almost 15-year-old Mozart’s first opera seria (Milan, 1770) was performed 22 times but not revived again until 1970. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
König David? The world hasn’t exactly been waiting for a German language recording of this once-popular musico-dramatic telling of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2014
Another Handel arias disc? Yes; although for once not just a run-down of usual arias from roles a singer happens...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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