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...
Claus Guth’s staging of La clemenza di Tito takes place entirely within a split-level set: the private scenes of emotional...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2018
Operetta composers confronted the jazz age in different ways. Prince Sándor in Kálmán’s Die Herzogin von Chicago actually outlaws the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2018
Fromental Halévy (1799-1862): not a name one comes across very often. But he was a key figure, with Meyerbeer, in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018
It’s a strange libretto, like a mixture of Lessing and early French light opera. Its political correctness – in ‘the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018
Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs was premiered in Santa Fe last year. Setting a libretto by Mark Campbell,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018
For their Naxos debut, Jeffrey Douma and the Yale Choral Artists perform music by three Yale composers that projects seriousness...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2018
I decided to review Moonkyung Lee’s mixed programme blind, listening and responding without knowing the composers’ identities beforehand. The opening...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2018
The Crossing, a chamber choir based in Philadelphia, goes where other such ensembles might fear to tread. Led by Donald...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2018
The repertoire for violin and harp is small, but on this engaging disc – a reissue from 1998 – the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2018
John Alan Rose (b1972) is an American composer-pianist, not to be confused with the older British composers John Rose (b1928,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018
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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