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...
Every encounter I’ve so far had with Benjamin Schmid’s playing has proved enjoyable. An all-round musician who can adapt to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18
Piston’s Sixth Symphony (1955) has fared well on disc, this being the fourth recording presently available (Morton Gould’s is nla)....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18
Bayreuth followers will remember this performance’s unofficial release (and that of a year before from the same basic cast) on...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW18
Only unveiled at Covent Garden little over two years ago, David Bösch’s production has already done good service for the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
Everyone has a clear, if misguided, idea of what to expect from opera productions at the Arena di Verona –...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18
The source of Aribert Reimann’s ninth opera, premiered in Berlin last autumn, seems a logical follow-up to his previous straight...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW18
Puccini’s all-American opus La fanciulla del West, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, can be a difficult one...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18
The Baden-Baden Festspielhaus’s concert cycle of Mozart’s mature operas, sponsored by Rolex, always starring Rolando Villazón and conducted sagaciously by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW18
While Bastien und Bastienne is not a work you will encounter very often, the real rarity here is the Grabmusik,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW18
Mendelssohn thought him the greatest conductor of his day, and Schumann and Spohr enthused over his operas. Posterity, however, was...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW18
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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