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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MacMILLAN Miserere. Strathclyde motets. O bone Jesu
Dedicated to Harry Christophers, who directed The Sixteen in the first performance at the Flanders Festival in August 2009, Miserere...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011
FAURÉ Requiem. Cantique de Jean Racine
This recording of the 1893 version of Fauré’s Requiem is notable for the presence of Philippe Jaroussky. Traditionally sung by...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2011
BERLIOZ Grande Messe des Morts
‘A vast and almost impossible project’, Paul McCreesh calls it in a liner note. Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts is...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011
Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson: A Tribute
Since Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s premature death in 2006 she has acquired an almost mythical aura, akin to that surrounding Kathleen...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2011
VIVALDI Teuzzone
Between 1718 and 1720 Vivaldi worked in Mantua, where he was appointed maestro di cappella da camera to the Habsburg...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2011
TURNAGE Anna Nicole
It seems fitting that Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole should reach a wider audience through this vividly filmed DVD. Like Anna...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011
POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites
Modern production-hater and musical conservative Riccardo Muti must have thought he was in seventh heaven when he discovered a staging...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2011
JANÁČEK Jenufa
Stéphane Braunschweig’s production dates back to 1996, when it played host to a memorable series of performances at the Théâtre...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2011
Tragédiennes 3
Susan Graham says that all roads in the lyric mezzo repertoire lead to Dido in Berlioz’s magnum opus, Les Troyens....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2011
VERDI Les vêpres siciliennes
The Sicilian Vespers, like Don Carlos, was composed for the Paris Opéra. Like Don Carlos, too, it’s better known in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2011
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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