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 Great Animal Orchestra was premiered this summer at the Cheltenham Festival and this recording was made a few days...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2014
The genre of rescue opera runs as a subtextual thread through this intriguing programme, a welcome throwback to more exploratory...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2014
These six – yes, six – Beethoven piano concertos were recorded over a period of years and in different locations....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014
This is Øystein Baadsvik’s third tuba concerto disc for BIS, previous instalments featuring 20th-century and 21st-century repertoire. The three works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014
Last year’s new Salzburg Meistersinger plays in the uniform historical setting of the pre-1848 German Biedermeier era. Herheim, his designers...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2014
In my Gramophone Collection on Elektra (9/13), five of the recordings were conducted by Karl Böhm. This one, from the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2014
The first 25 years of Gaspare Spontini’s life, before he moved to Paris, are pretty poorly documented but this new...
Reviewed in issue 10/2014
It seems ironic to be sitting down to watch an ambulatory opera production from the comfort of one’s armchair. The...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014
Mercadante seems to have been born to disappoint. Henry Chorley said as much at the time of the 1836 Paris...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2014
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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