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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Dramma per Musica
A flamboyant star in her native Germany, Simone Kermes is a dangerous, no-holds-barred singer. Like Cecilia Bartoli, whom she often...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW/2012
Amoretti: Arias by Mozart, Gluck, Grétry
Christiane Karg is a young soprano from Bavaria with an impressively varied list of opera performances behind her: Poppea for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012
WEBER Der Freischütz
Claims are made in this set’s handsome booklet for the importance of the ‘pseudo-stereophony’ recording system with which engineer/producer Gerhard...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012
WAGNER Siegfried
Hot on the heels of its complete Ring cycle from Hamburg, Oehms Classics now offers the current Frankfurt staging. In...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012
WAGNER Lohengrin
After a bumpy, uneven ride through Parsifal, Marek Janowski’s new live Wagner cycle continues somewhat more majestically with Lohengrin. I...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012
VERDI Joan of Arc
Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco should come with some sort of ‘surgeon general’s warning’ before anyone hears a note. The real-life Joan...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012
ROSSINI La scala di seta
There is limited choice for La scala di seta, either on CD or DVD, so it is a shame that...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2012
De FALLA La Vida Breve
Expectations can’t run too high in what appears to be the DVD debut of Manuel de Falla’s infrequently performed opera...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2012
CAVALLI La Didone
La Didone is the third of Cavalli’s 27 surviving operas. It was premiered in 1641 at the Teatro San Cassiano,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012
BERG Lulu
These days it’s not unknown for productions of Berg’s Lulu to omit the first scene of Act 3, as finalised...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012
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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