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...
In Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa may have woken up one morning to find that he had been transformed overnight into...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: AW2019
Though it clocks it at just under an hour, there’s plenty of bang for your buck in this high-voltage recital...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2019
How best to perform Oberon, Weber’s three-act Romantic opera crossed with Singspiel? It was originally sung in English, composed for...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2019
The Thirteenth Child (2016) is Poul Ruders’s fifth opera and the third issued on disc. After The Handmaid’s Tale (1998;...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2019
Cecilia Bartoli’s long established collaboration with stage directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier has yielded some memorable results but none...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2019
True Rossini tenors are a rare breed. Applicants require a light tenor, pingy top notes and florid ease through the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2019
When Opera Rara gave a concert performance of Puccini’s Le Villi in London in late 2018 with Mark Elder and...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2019
Six down, with Idomeneo – one hopes – still to come. Once again, Yannick Nézet-Séguin proves himself to be a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2019
Are upmarket compilations becoming a trend? An early example is Marc Minkowski’s Rameau disc ‘Une symphonie imaginaire’ (Archiv, A/05). When...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2019
You may have objections to the piece itself. Described in advance by Korngold as his ‘greatest’ work, Heliane’s Miracle (1927)...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2019
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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