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 compositional catalogue of New York-resident Debra Kaye runs to around 70 works, ranging from orchestral and instrumental works to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2024
The coupling is one of contrasts, much as an album of Richard Strauss and Stravinsky would present. While it’s perfectly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
We’ve got used to the fact that Michael Spyres albums take us on unexpected journeys, often with unexpected diversions on...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2024
Stage+ hosts the film of this Russian-prison Parsifal, directed (via Zoom) by Kirill Serebrennikov in Vienna in 2021. Anyone discomfited...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2024
Richard Jones’s production of Samson et Dalila polarised opinion when it opened at Covent Garden in 2022. I didn’t see...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
It was with Atys, staged and recorded in 1987 by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants to mark the tercentenary...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
Alcina was first staged on April 16, 1735, at John Rich’s new theatre at Covent Garden, where it ran for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024
French vocal music could not have a finer ambassador’ was how I closed my citation for our Artist of the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
Between 2007 and 2022 Andrew Nethsingha raised the already high standard of the Chapel Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
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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