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...
This is a very apt pairing, as Giovanni Simone Mayr (born Johann Simon Mayr) was one of Donizetti’s teachers, who...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2018
Raymond and Agnes. The title doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, nor does it readily suggest an atmosphere of mystery...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018
‘My dear Richard! Here you have your Tauber-Lied!!’ scribbled Franz Lehár on the score of ‘Dein ist mein ganzes Herz’,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2018
The year 2017 may have delivered the first opera about Claudio Monteverdi (at least according to the creators of La...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018
Robert Carsen’s production of Agrippina (Venice, 1709), filmed across two performances at the Theater an der Wien in March 2016,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2018
Donizetti abandoned work on Le duc d’Albe when the director of the Paris Opéra, Léon Pillet, objected that there would...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2018
It is perhaps unfortunate that I began my listening with the second work on Louis Lortie’s disc, the G minor...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2018
You can rely on Anne Akiko Meyers to deliver something more than a violin concerto with fill-ups, as this latest...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018
Anyone who has spent time on the Algarve knows how rich and varied its maritime life is. In expanding upon...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW18
Sebastian Weigle and his Frankfurt orchestra here reach the sixth volume of their survey of Strauss orchestral works. In doing...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2018
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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