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...
Artaserse was first performed at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome on February 4, 1730. (Less than four months later...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2014
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1703 55) was the master of music at the Paris Opéra during the early 1730s, a leading light...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2014
Rossini’s Otello has had a handful of stagings in recent years but none as potent as this. Conceived for the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2014
‘At last we have a recording of John Eccles’s Judgment of Paris’, wrote Julie Anne Sadie of the Early Opera...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2014
With this new recording, based on a production at La Monnaie, Orlando now rivals Giulio Cesare as the best-served Handel...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014
Times are tough for seasoned admirers of Porgy and Bess. The recent Broadway production sliced, diced and reorchestrated the score...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014
The history of Donizetti’s Rita, completed in 1839 but left unperformed at the composer’s death, is of a complexity out...
Reviewed in issue 07/2014
One of the advantages of watching opera on DVD is that you get the best seat in the house. In...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2014
Sir John Tomlinson’s world-weary enactment of the tortured Bluebeard is variously available under the batons of James Levine (Munich Philharmonic),...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Basing her recital around dream and night, Joyce Yang puts unlike alongside unlike in a dream-like sequence, one where ‘impulse...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014
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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