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...
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STANFORD The Travelling Companion (Purser)
This is a landmark: the first full-length commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. It’s all the more...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019
SPONTINI Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (Montesano)
Some great operas received disastrous premieres: Il barbiere di Siviglia, where the audience hissed and jeered and a cat wandered...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019
SALIERI La fiera di Venezia (Ehrhardt)
La fiera di Venezia – ‘The fair of Venice’ – is quite different from the operas that Salieri composed for...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019
ROSSINI Sigismondo (Wilson)
It would appear at first glance that the release of this recording of one of Rossini’s more egregious operas has...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2019
PICKER Fantastic Mr Fox (Rose)
Opera has done much during the past few decades to shed its elite, high-art credentials. In many ways, children’s opera...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2019
Daniel Behle: MOZART - Zero to Hero
‘Zero to Hero’ proclaims Sony of a recital that begins with the ‘loser’ Don Ottavio (is he?) and ends with...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2019
MOZART Don Giovanni (Montanari)
They really don’t make them like this any more. Recorded in 2015 and now emerging as a tribute to the...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019
GOUNOD La nonne sanglante (Equilbey)
La nonne sanglante is drawn from the (very substantial) subplot of The Monk, the Gothic horror novel by Matthew Lewis....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2019
GOUNOD Faust (Rousset)
Hot on the heels of Naxos’s release of the ‘1864 version’ of Gounod’s hit opera (A/19), here comes a release...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019
CHARPENTIER Les arts florissans. Les Plaisirs de Versailles
Having recently welcomed the first interpretation of Les arts florissants to have been recorded for nearly 40 years, within a...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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