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 ‘three’ in question are Haydn, Mozart and – courtesy of a large chunk from Il maestro di cappella –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014
These three BBC episodes of Great Characters in Opera may be old-school in terms of staging and appearance but they...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014
If you got stuck on the title, as I did, the list of characters provides a clue: it’s ‘The Golden...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014
With some fine recordings of Verdi’s fifth opera already in the catalogue, this new release from the Austrian Radio archives...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
In a bold move, the booklet essay compares Franz Schreker’s Der Schatzgräber (first performed in 1920) with Richard Strauss’s Die...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2014
Teodor Currentzis is the artistic director of the opera house in Perm, on the edge of Siberia. As reported in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2014
Having primarily made her name in lyric Mozart and Strauss operas, Renée Fleming has been returning to the bel canto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014
The London Symphony Orchestra’s concert performances of The Turn of the Screw in April last year sadly turned into a...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2014
Carmen live in the open from Sydney Harbour in the Australian summer? Not the most natural of marriages of work...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014
Here are four cycles of short, intelligently crafted and musically refined pieces. The six miniatures that make up Magnus Lindberg’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2014
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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