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...
For his first solo album, Julien Behr explores repertory associated with a voice type known in 19th-century France as the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018
If you like your Baroque opera understated or postmodern (or uncut) then Fabio Ceresa’s Orlando furioso is not for you....
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2018
‘GF Händel’ proclaims the CD cover, appending ‘Leonardo Vinci’ in smaller type below. Shrewd marketing, perhaps, but a touch disingenuous....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018
Giovanna d’Arco stems from Verdi’s ‘galley years’. Composed for La Scala in 1845, it’s full of great melodies even if...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018
Like so many works written for the Paris Opéra, where it was first performed in 1890, Ascanio never reached the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018
Turandot’s riddles are getting no easier to decipher in the 21st century. Now it’s not enough to see Puccini’s last,...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2018
This 2017 revival was the first time Antonio Pappano had conducted Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Royal Opera production of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018
'As for the work itself’, wrote George Bernard Shaw for The World on the occasion of the opera’s Covent Garden...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2018
From Figaro and Così downwards, comic opera stagings today rarely escape without a disturbing final twist. This Serse from Frankfurt...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2018
It is good to see Death in Venice making its way around Europe after a lengthy period of neglect following...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2018
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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