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...
As an old man, Rossini remembered with gratitude the audience who attended the first performance of Sigismondo in Venice’s La...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2017
Adelaide di Borgogna, staged in Rome in December 1817, comes between Rossini’s Armida and Mosè in Egitto. The setting is...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2017
Valery Gergiev’s Kirov recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov operas for Philips in the 1990s did much to restore the composer’s reputation internationally...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017
If you’ve ever wondered why Hans Pfitzner failed to win the hand of Alma Schindler and wound up instead with...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017
L’incoronazione di Poppea has always been the subject of revisionist fascination. The first modern performance, directed by Vincent d’Indy at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2017
Premiered at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket, in January 1723, Ottone was the first Handel opera to pair his star draws...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017
There are plenty of Donizetti rarities for enterprising opera companies and record labels to choose from: Emilia di Liverpool, Elisabetta...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night Concerts, open-air affairs in front of Schönnbrunn Palace, are now rushed on to the market...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
First, a name to watch, if you’re not already watching her, that is: Dobrinka Tabakova, Bulgarian-born, a prize-winning pupil of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2017
The title is slightly confusing. This disc was recorded at Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, and the location referred to in Robert...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
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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