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...
Roberto Devereux was the third and last of Donizetti’s operas featuring Queen Elizabeth I. If no scene is quite as...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime may not be one of Oscar Wilde’s masterpieces, but like his best work, the short story...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
Shakespeare’s anniversary year may be over but still the last of the musical tributes are trickling in. ‘Sing Willow’ may...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2017
Sara Mingardo is the headline act but features in only three out of seven chamber duets. The unifying element is...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2017
Anyone who has ever seen Natalie Dessay on the stage will know what an accomplished actress she is. It is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2017
Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz (1392 c1480) first came to light in the 1970s, when his name was discovered by the...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2017
Multitalented Simon Wallfisch is known to many for his appearances as ‘The Singing Cellist’, though here he joins pianist Edward...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017
In Britain, Paweł Szymański’s name began to appear a few decades ago, seeming to be a natural successor to such...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2017
The Soldier’s Tale had a troubled wartime genesis from which emerged music of bite and swagger and a new kind...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2017
A visually rather low grade reissue – no Blu ray magic broom here – of three Vienna studio films made...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2017
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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