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 circumstances of the composition of Viktor Ullmann’s one-act opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis – within the artistic ghetto of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
The success of Mozart’s first opera seria, Mitridate, for the ducal theatre in Milan, led immediately to a second commission....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2022
Perhaps it was the superficial similarity to Fidelio – a virtuous wife unwavering in heroic devotion to her husband –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2022
'Composing conductors are a suspicious lot,’ Antal Dorati remarked in his 1979 memoir Notes from Seven Decades, which placed him...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2022
This has taken a few years to hit the shelves. Arnaud Bernard’s staging of I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022
We’re lucky to have several early recordings of Bryn Terfel singing lieder – including a handsome Liederkreis (DG, 5/00) –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2022
Prolific representations of pastoral life are sometimes dismissed as whimsy, especially when the members of the nobility were masquerading as...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2022
As with all of The Sixteen’s releases, this new one manages to magically bridge the old and the new with...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022
I’ve not always been kind to La Reverdie, but one must salute the remarkable stability of their cast and approach...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2022
This is one of those rare recitals that takes one risk after another – with handsome pay-offs in what initially...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2022
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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