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...
‘I was not thinking of the Redeemer when I created Parsifal’, wrote Wagner. In ceremonial moments stage director Pierre Audi...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2017
After a compelling Cav & Pag in 2015 – released on DVD by Sony Classical, 5/16 – the Salzburg Easter...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2017
Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) is an interesting figure. Italian by birth, he spent his working life in Germany. Composer, priest –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2017
Of Saint-Saëns’s 13 operas, only Samson et Dalila is a repertory staple. Palazzetto Bru Zane’s mission to promote rare French...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
This 2016 Glyndebourne production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia was the first to be staged there since the elegantly...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2017
Ravel was never more sincere than in his works devoted to childhood, the theme for this fifth volume in Stéphane...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
It’s not clear what La Scala intended to capture for posterity in this recording. The singers, orchestra and chorus are...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2017
Martinů’s The Greek Passion, with its tale of refugees and the lack of tolerance which divides the community where they...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
All-Gluck aria discs are still not all that common. This century has seen fine examples from Daniel Behle (Decca, 9/14)...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2017
A generous cocktail of melodies and a conjuror’s hat of pointedly apt dramaturgical settings make up Berlioz’s late (1862) setting...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2017
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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