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...
This album’s wonderfully varied programme is more than a showcase for baritone James Martin’s engrossing artistry or a historical survey....
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024
Throughout a long and fertile career, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has created works rich in character and emotion, and marked by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2024
Virgil Thomson’s more than 150 musical portraits span 60 years of creative activity. With few exceptions, he composed them in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2024
Though there’s much ingratiating listening here, the Buffalo Philharmonic’s self-produced disc is most important as a calling card to show...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
The Enchantress (1887) is among Tchaikovsky’s least‑known, least-performed mature operas, yet it was the one he considered his finest. Set...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024
So far, The Hours has polarised opera audiences. For some, it’s an enveloping fusion of intricate dramaturgy and symphonic orchestration....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024
The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2024
La povera ragazza, è pazza, amici miei. ‘The poor girl, my friends, has lost her mind’, confides Don Giovanni to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2024
Having rejoiced in March at the first top-class interpretation of David et Jonathas to emerge in donkey’s years, just a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2024
The opera repertoire would be considerably diminished if composers had abandoned their ‘problem children’ at the first sign of trouble....
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 06/2024
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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