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...
Ann Hallenberg’s inquisitive forays researched in partnership with her musicologist husband Holger Schmidt-Hallenberg are never merely run-of-the-mill recitals – as has...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW17
Whatever else Parsifal is about, we may agree that its ending represents the opening up of a closed society. That...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17
German interpreters have long dreamt of performing Wagner with star singers from the supposedly ‘opposite’ Italian or French vocal cultures,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17
To be undertaking new roles in major houses (and in a new Fach) well into your seventies – not to mention...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW17
With a composition history that straddles the period of the composer’s three breakthrough works for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, The Nightingale in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
Straussians might have high hopes for this DVD. It captures the homecoming last year of Strauss’s penultimate opera to the site of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW17
Marks out of ten for product management: zero. Here we have an audio recording of an opera sung in French with no...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
Thomas Hyde’s one-man chamber opera about the society osteopath scapegoated during the Profumo affair dates from 2008, when it was...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17
Marcus Attilius Regulus (d250 BC) was a Roman general who, initially victorious, became a prisoner in Carthage. Sent to Rome with...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW17
‘Death is nothingness’, sings Iago at the end of his Credo in Verdi’s Otello. It could be the motto for Reinhard von...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW17
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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