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...
This is a surprise: the first-ever production of Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini, given last year at the opera festival in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2017
Few sopranos are better equipped to sing this repertoire stylishly, attractively and with subtle characterisation than Roberta Invernizzi. ‘Queens’ presents...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017
Metastasio’s drama about the Roman patriot Cato’s preference to commit suicide rather than submit to the dictator Julius Caesar was...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2017
It is extraordinary to think that a generation or two ago Gluck’s tragic heroines were being sung by sopranos such...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2017
Vincenzo Bellini’s first opera Adelson e Salvini is a real rarity – so the perfect candidate for an Opera Rara...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2017
Heike Scheele’s design for Munich’s new 2016 Ballo takes no prisoners in terms of stage direction-obeying literalism. We get an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2017
Ruby Hughes is a young soprano who won both first prize and the audience prize at the London Handel competition...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2017
‘Haydn is writing with new zeal since he has had the good fortune to lose his nasty wife’, noted the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
The still-young winner of the 2006 Leeds Competition presented his Beethoven credentials more than impressively with the Hammerklavier and Waldstein...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
‘So here are 3 degrees of reimagination for your consideration. My own minimalist effort, Bach’s mild refashioning of BWV1006 with...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2017
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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