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 first staged production of Theodora was as long ago as 1926 but Glyndebourne’s iconic 1996 production smashed the Handel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2012
Handel’s name is on the cover, and so is a bold photograph of his statue’s silhouette by the Marktkirche in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2012
There is only one serious problem with this choir – it has the word ‘Youth’ in its name. It may...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2012
Twenty years on from their acclaimed ‘Tenebrae’ recording on ECM (3/92), the Hilliard Ensemble return to Gesualdo, this time for...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2012
Designed for the amateur domestic market, Dvořák’s settings of Moravian folk poems captivate with their lyrical grace (Dvořák was as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
To witness a performance of Delius’s A Mass of Life, arguably his supreme creative achievement, is to look into the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2012
Considering that in his three Leçons des ténèbres he produced an unsurpassed gem of Baroque vocal music, it is surprising...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012
This latest recording of Britten’s War Requiem arrives almost 50 years to the day after the work’s acclaimed premiere at...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2012
The conversation between Peter Sellars and Simon Halsey articulates a lot of what’s special about this ‘ritualisation’ of the Great...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2012
While the Easter Oratorio derives much of its material from cantatas, it is the only example where Bach employs free...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2012
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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