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...
Philip Glass’s music was the first to be featured in the series of ‘portrait’ albums by violinist Angèle Dubeau and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2024
For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal-chamber works gathered...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 01/2024
While not an ardent fan of the art song medium, I have to say that this new Navona album of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
Seeing the words Hindoyan and verismo in close conjunction I’d lazily anticipated a joint recital disc with the conductor’s wife,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
Taking its title from an amorous chorus in Rameau’s Les Boréades (1763), this programme traverses French operatic genres spanning from...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2023
The opening signs for this Meistersinger are promising. The curtain of the Deutsche Oper Berlin stays closed as John Fiore...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2023
Though Ernani shows Verdi at his dramatically incisive best in this early stage of his output, the opera still needs...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2023
How do you like your Tosca? Traditional or radical? Vienna offers both. At the Staatsoper, Margarethe Wallmann’s staging, premiered with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2023
With their latest release, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques continue their exploration of the operas of Lully. Premiered in...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2023
Poor Philip Rosner. What’s a nice young Viennese bridegroom to do when his fiancée’s former beloved (vanished, presumed drowned) reappears...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2023
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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