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...
It was the gratuitous rape of a young woman by officers answerable to their Austrian Gauleiter during the Act 3 Pas...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2017
'The trifle [Der Schmarrn] is ready, and you’ve only yourselves to blame if it flops.’ Lehár seems to have been positively...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2017
All the world’s a stage. It’s from the wrong play, but the Melancholy Jaques’s extended metaphor in As You Like...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017
Like Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, ‘Scipio’s Dream’ is an azione teatrale. The circumstances of the work’s composition and performance are not...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2017
Félicien David’s music has edged its way back to the fringes of the repertory of late, and Palazzetto Bru Zane’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
This year has seen several fine recordings celebrating the quincentenary of the founding act of the Reformation but this is comfortably the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017
This impressive recording is the fifth of a series devoted to the music of the Peterhouse Partbooks, so called because, though...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017
This release joins a surprisingly small company entirely devoted to works by Purcell’s teacher and friend John Blow (excepting the opera...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
Boris Giltburg certainly has something fresh to say in Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto, that well-worn, much-loved masterpiece, and in his new Naxos...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017
The last instalment in John Eliot Gardiner’s bracing Mendelssohn cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra marks up a significant success....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017
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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