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...
In August 2015 I assessed a clutch of new recordings of the four-hands version of The Rite of Spring and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2018
To mark the 10th anniversary of Régine Crespin’s death, Warner Classics has gathered together her principal operatic and song recitals,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2018
This imaginary fête musicale is assembled from assorted works associated with the French court during the reigns of Louis XIV,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2018
The press notes that came with this disc invoke celebrated duo recitals of the past, but the combination of tenor...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2018
Just over a year after she released her debut disc, ‘A Journey’ (11/16), Pretty Yende offers us a follow-up recital...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018
This is a staged equivalent to the CD recording welcomed by David Vickers (Naïve, 7/14). The conductor and most of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2018
I well remember this production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan. In 2008, for the centenary of Rimsky-Korsakov’s death, the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2018
‘I play with violence’, Astor Piazzolla once said. ‘My bandoneón must sing and scream. Sometimes I beat the bandoneón up.’...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2018
A day of torment, caprice and madness is how the key players of Le nozze di Figaro sum up their...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2018
‘Next to Euripides or Gluck, Lully’s Alceste is a joke’, was Joseph Kerman’s withering verdict in Opera as Drama (Knopf:...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2018
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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