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...
Nicola Vaccaj (or Vaccai) was born in 1790 and died in 1848. He was thus a contemporary of Rossini, Donizetti...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012
In 1988 Alan Blyth, praising the opera’s first official recording on EMI in 1958 (with Denise Duval, Régine Crespin and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012
In Palestrina, Pfitzner was an inheritor of Wagner’s through-composed music dramas – indeed, his sparing use of vocal display, of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012
Even after success with Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach continued to produce the light-hearted one-act operettas that had earlier made his...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 09/2012
First presented in Munich and Cardiff 15 years ago, the David Alden/Paul Steinberg/Buki Schiff Poppea is seen here in a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2012
As there is no wholly recommendable recording of Cendrillon on CD, a new DVD release is welcome. To date the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2012
Atalanta was designed to celebrate the recent marriage of the Prince of Wales to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha and was...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012
Someone should write a biography of Domenico Barbaia, the larger-than-life impresario whose management of the opera houses in Naples, Vienna...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012
The Belgian pianist Michel Block (1937-2003) grew up in Mexico enraptured by the Spanish music he heard on the radio....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
For his first live solo release, James Rhodes mainly offers works he’s previously recorded in the studio, plus Beethoven’s Waldstein...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2012
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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