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 all the appreciable virtues offered by recent contenders in the Bach Sonatas and Partitas field, I cannot think of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018
The late Dmitri Hvorostovsky sang 10 roles at the Wiener Staatsoper. Nine of them are represented on this Orfeo disc...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
At the end of the day – which we have now reached for this live Hong Kong concert Ring cycle...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018
Clearly one of Wieland Wagner’s great New Bayreuth nights. Orfeo is to be congratulated on putting it out despite the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018
In response to the first performance of Salieri’s Les Horaces (Versailles, 1786), an eyewitness reported ‘there cannot be a more...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018
The retirement of John Copley’s 1974 production of La bohème was met with something approaching national mourning by many opera-goers,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
This new Lyrita reissue is the third incarnation of Virginia Opera’s live 1978 recording of Thea Musgrave’s fast-moving, gripping three-act...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
On Massenet’s Cinderella – late (1896) and dramaturgically unconventional – the librettist and composer Henri Cain worked rather like Verdi...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2018
As captured live by NDR at the Göttingen Handel Festival last May, stage noises and imperfections inevitably arise from this...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2018
A year after its premiere at the Finnish National Opera and appearance on OperaVision (11/17), here’s a chance to experience...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
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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