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...
On first glance, you crave some meat here. Where’s the main course? If Nicholas Collon’s Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra can...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022
Pauline Viardot led a remarkable life. Born in France to Spanish tenor Manuel García, who created the role of Count...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
Senesino (nickname for Francesco Bernardi) set the template for the star castrato with attitude. In contrast to the far more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022
Like Marina Viotti’s recording devoted to Pauline Viardot (see overleaf), this new album featuring Jodie Devos is a tribute to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
Akin to the proverbial London bus, you wait ages for a new interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse on record, then...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022
Acis et Galatée is the last completed opera in Lully’s distinguished output, but unlike his famous and influential tragédies lyriques...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2022
After Leoncavallo’s Zazà (7/16), Opera Rara continues to mine the nether regions of the verismo alphabet with the same composer’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
Italian opera in London was still on a precarious footing when Handel staged Amadigi in May 1715. Fickle aristocratic audiences...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022
For her second solo album, Lisette Oropesa combines her love for both the French language and Italian music in an...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022
Despite the fame of the title-character’s ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’, Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally remains a rarity on disc –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2022
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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