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 disc to reinforce my feeling that Emanuel Bach’s keyboard concertos are notoriously hard to bring off on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2018
The Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is, of course, pre eminent among contemporary Wagnerian singers. But the market choices of today...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2018
The heroic-pastoral melodrama Dorilla in Tempe (Venice, 1726) was revived by Vivaldi in 1728 (Venice) and 1732 (Prague), but the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2018
This new Rigoletto from Delos tragically serves as a valedictory recording. The death of Dmitri Hvorostovsky last November has robbed...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018
Nikolai Schukoff is Austrian, Melody Moore and Lester Lynch are from the United States. Their names might be unfamiliar but...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2018
It’s difficult to understand why Verdi’s Ernani struggles to get performances. It hasn’t played at the Wiener Staatsoper since 2002...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018
Tchaikovsky identified closely with Herman, the anti-hero of his opera The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), whose gambling addiction leads...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018
Robert Carsen – in both this present staging and his previous essay (also on DVD: ArtHaus, 9/10) – is among...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2018
The most successful British operas of the last few years would suggest that a sizeable strand of the opera audience...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018
Although this production of the teenage Mozart’s Lucia Silla was first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 2013, it was...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
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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