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...
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John Ogdon – The Complete RCA Album Collection
RCA/Sony Classical’s six-CD album of John Ogdon’s complete RCA Red Seal recordings plus an additional Liszt recital from Japan coincides...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
STRAUSS Salome
It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
STRAUSS Capriccio
Still a relative rarity in the opera house, Strauss’s last opera benefits perhaps more than any of his other works...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
ROSSINI Maometto Secondo
Mehmet II was the Ottoman sultan who captured Byzantine Constantinople in 1453. The portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini, on display...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
ROSSINI Le Comte Ory
The lovely small Zurich Opernhaus is ideal for Rossini – as it is for Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier and their...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Turandot
Long one of my favourite productions of anything, the Andrei Serban Turandot arrives on video, some 30 years after I...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Musically solid and theatrically intriguing, this Madama Butterfly from Hamburg brings one to ponder whether this opera is truly about...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI La fanciulla del West
Like many a live performance of La fanciulla del West, this one takes a while before everybody is warmed up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014
Emma Matthews sings Mozart Arias
Emma Matthews is a soprano who has appeared in an impressive range of operas in her native Australia. Her repertoire...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
HANDEL Teseo (Highlights)
In 2011 the Göttingen Handel Festival bid an emotional farewell to its long-serving Artistic Director Nicholas McGegan with a production...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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