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...
Lori Laitman (b1955) is one of America’s most prolific art-song composers, with an impressive catalogue of recordings from several labels,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021
Dvořák’s symphonies are well represented in the recording catalogue, with multiple performances – especially of the late symphonies – featuring...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2021
The City of Tomorrow are a pioneering wind quintet who like to explore ‘physical movement and spatial relationships’ (aspects not...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2021
This new film of Simon Boccanegra captures what’s only Christian Gerhaher’s second Verdi role (after Posa in Don Carlo) and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2021
We owe this performance of Passionément to Covid 19, as it happens. Bru Zane’s original intention was to give us...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2021
‘Un morceau de génie’ was Stendhal’s verdict on Elena, triumphantly premiered in Naples in January 1814. Like Fidelio, whose final...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2021
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Odyssey Opera specialises in mining the operatic archives to perform rarely heard works. Recent years have...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2021
How times change! Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s 1979 third opera, was once declared a child of the 1960s with its apparent...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2021
This was the eighth of Destouches’s 10 operas and the last of his six tragédies en musique. The libretto was...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2021
First performed at Vienna’s Burgtheater in February 1792 (almost two months to the day after Mozart’s death), Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2021
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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