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...
Most of Telemann’s operas for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre are lost. One of the few exceptions is Flavius Bertaridus (1729), which...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013
The vast discography of Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) is a proverbial mixed bag. The Bavarian State Opera’s 1994 production...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013
This year is the tercentenary of Antoine Dauvergne (1713-97). From 1744 Rameau’s pupil rose through the ranks of the Académie...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2013
Cherubini’s masterpiece, performed in French and without the sprawling 1855 recitatives by Franz Lachner that have stymied modern performances for...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013
This is getting confusing: the Glyndebourne Festival DVD of Billy Budd (9/11) is now followed by a CD of the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2013
I Puritani was Bellini’s last opera, commissioned by the Théâtre Italien in Paris and performed with a star cast –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2013
Beware of hyperbole. Words such as ‘masterpiece’ are freely tossed about in the commentary surrounding the Metropolitan Opera debut of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2013
‘Arias for Marietta Marcolini: Rossini’s first muse’, runs the rubric. In his delightful, romanticising Rossini biography, Stendhal even maintained that...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2013
With Christopher Columbus (yes, him from 1492) joining Harnoncourt, William Christie and Savall on the dedicatees’ list, Petibon’s new release...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, who was so impressive in Vivaldi’s Orlando furioso (6/12), here tackles an unhackneyed array of arias from the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2013
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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