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...
The ultimate curate’s egg. I have admired watching and hearing Vogt as Lohengrin and in Katharina Wagner’s important Meistersinger. Yet...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013
Anyone attracted to early-18th-century German Baroque music beyond Bach will admire Telemann’s fertile melodiousness and exquisite craftsmanship but Dorothee Mields’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
Why are they always trying to drag Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd kicking and screaming into the opera house and concert hall?...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013
Any work from the dawn of opera comes with many performance practice decisions but Orfeo, in particular, is heard within...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013
Opera Rara has for many years been promoting invaluable recordings of rare 19th-century operas but this latest issue is rather...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2013
During the 1730s Handel baked three pasticci compiled from his own compositions: Oreste (1734) and Alessandro Severo (1738) were designed...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
>Owen Wingrave, arguably Britten’s last fully completed opera, is a masterpiece of musical scene-setting. Try the impressionistic interlude, part Berg,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2013
Half the fun in anthologies comes from seeing what has been chosen and how the programme has been sewn together....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue:
The unique selling point of this disc is its valuable gathering together of early, and often rarely heard, songs by...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2013
So here they are again – last year’s Gramophone Recording of the Year winners back with a new disc, parts...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2013
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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