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...
Initial encounters with Klaus Florian Vogt can be unsettling. The voice is too small, sweet and youthful to be a...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012
I suspect that, to an even greater extent than his award-winning Götterdämmerung (7/10), the second instalment of Sir Mark Elder’s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2012
What binds these Traviatas, made almost 50 years apart, is how neatly one is what the other is not. Natalie...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2012
When he died in 2007, Luciano Pavarotti left an estate worth in excess, it is said, of $474 million. It...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
As with its predecessors in Hamburg’s now complete 2008-10 Ring, Simone Young brings to Wagner’s textures a constant questioning of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012
One we can see, one we can’t – but the 40 years that separate these new releases speak volumes in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2012
The 350th anniversary of Alessandro Scarlatti’s birth fell in 2010 but did not receive the fuss that one of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012
When this operatic feature film first arrived 10 years ago, anybody suffering from cynicism about the publicised ‘love couple’ might...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012
Imagine a parallel universe where the greatest democracy on earth had thought better than to legislate against a fifth of...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 04/2012
A tour of the ducal palace is more or less obligatory for anyone visiting Venice for the first time. In...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2012
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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