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...
That it took a Bohemian Jew to bring Germany’s foundational drama of nationhood to the lyric stage was an irony...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018
After Solti’s two Strauss one-acters with Birgit Nilsson (10/17), Decca now gives the lavish hi res reissue treatment to two...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2018
‘I want a great rollicking sound’, Ethel Smyth told the BBC Symphony Orchestra at rehearsals for her 1914 comic opera....
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 05/2018
Max Emanuel Cencic, once dubbed by Tim Ashley ‘the cult Croatian countertenor’, brings his trademark mix of flamboyance and sensitivity...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018
It’s cruelly ironic that, with Meyerbeer performances still a comparative rarity (apart from, perhaps, in a range of smaller German...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018
Max Emanuel Cencic, Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato are among the many singers to have recorded arias by Geminiano Giacomelli...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018
Lest we British get too proprietorial about Handel, it’s worth remembering that his oratorio casts were cosmopolitan right to the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018
Sollazzo, whose second recording this is, have been making a name for themselves since their formation in 2014. As with...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2018
This CD reminds us of the fount of fine vocal repertoire available from the province of Ulster. Charles Wood is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2018
If this is a Vivaldi sacred ‘pops’ programme, then it’s a neat one: the evergreen Gloria, followed by spotlight motets...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018
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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