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...
Juan Diego Flórez’s last operatic album, ‘L’Amour’ (Decca, 6/14), took him forwards in time from his bel canto basecamp into...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2017
Considering that the London Philharmonic has been Glyndebourne’s resident orchestra since 1963, it’s surprising that Georg Solti never conducted the orchestra there given...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017
Practise some patience with this one. In selecting choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to direct its new production of Così fan...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017
It’s 1904 and Selma, a wealthy but man-hating widow, is embroiled in a farcical tangle of misplaced affections and cross-dressing as...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2017
Where do you turn after taping the complete mature operas of Richard Wagner? To the man who contributed the very...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
It’s interesting – and revealing – that Pentatone has a designated ‘American Operas’ series. It’s an acknowledgement, if you like, that there is something very...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2017
Handel’s serenata about the marriage of Peleus and Thetis being celebrated by Apollo and the Muses on the slopes of Mount...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017
A set of transparent plexiglass chambers functions effectively as the space inside Lulu’s head. It’s mostly empty, with the singers...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2017
Louis Andriessen’s operas have possessed more than their fair share of bizarre plots, grotesque twists, surreal scenarios and outlandish characters...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2017
To say that this disc represents all that is worst about the classical recording industry is no reflection on either...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2017
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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