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 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has seemed to put its best foot forward for the debut release on its own label...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
Post-war recordings of Bach cantatas from Germany are a richer repository than is generally known, outside those on the major...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2024
You might already know the title number of Maurice Yvain’s Yes! from Susan Graham’s treasurable French operetta album (Erato, 5/02);...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024
Nielsen’s second opera hasn’t always travelled well outside its native land. The ‘sung in German’ label on this newcomer rang...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024
Some will doubtless raise eyebrows at Bru Zane’s inclusion of Werther in their ongoing re-evaluation of the lesser-known French repertory....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2024
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Céphale et Procris (March 1694) was the first and only full-scale tragédie en musique to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
Poro (King’s Theatre, February 1731) was modelled on Metastasio’s Alessandro nell’Indie, which had just recently been first set to music...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
It is clear from his introductory note in the booklet that the moving spirit behind this recording is Jakub Józef...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2024
Experimental Donizetti? Do those words ever belong together? Experimental or not, L’esule di Roma (‘The Exile from Rome’), premiered in...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
Just when you thought the pandemic’s musical fruits were all harvested … During the spring 2020 lockdown, Fenella Humphreys –...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
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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