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...
Some historians now argue that the Dark Ages were not really all that dark and observe that cultural light did...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013
Deidamia, premiered at Lincoln’s Inn Fields on January 10, 1741, was Handel’s last opera. It didn’t come towards the end...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2013
In this 2011 film of a revival of Jonathan Kent’s Glyndebourne staging – a kind of companion sequel to the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2013
Two operas in one month are a turn-up indeed for admirers of the most worldly of the Bach clan. Premiered...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2013
Il Pomo d’Oro only formed last year but the band already have a prolific recording profile, with several Naïve Vivaldi...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013
In keeping with his approach to earlier issues in this complete mature Wagner-in-concert series, Marek Janowski opts for the slimmer,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013
If there’s such a thing as an anti-Solti Elektra, this is it. In contrast to his hyper articulate Decca set...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2013
The dedicatee of Beethoven’s violin sonata (Op 47), the French virtuoso Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831) seems not to have ever played...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2013
The publicity told us last year that ‘the award-winning tenor and international “cross-over” superstar returns to his first love –...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013
Here’s just a small part of the riveting ‘back story’ of this never-quite-forgotten Australian composer (1912 90). A student of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2013
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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