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...
The innovations of Niccolò Jommelli (1714 74) transformed mid-18th-century Italian opera just as much as Gluck’s slightly later so-called reforms,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017
Premiered in Avignon in August 1976, then toured across six European countries for two months before selling out New York’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2017
'Simple but not unintelligent’ is how tenor Lawrence Brownlee describes his L’elisir d’amore character Nemorino, which summarises his approach to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
Composer, pianist, conductor, concert promoter and educator Erik Chisholm never had the attention he deserved, not at home in Scotland...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2017
Far from the monstrous doll figure of Lulus past and present, Marlis Petersen gave the Met audience a Lulu they...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
The test of a good crossover record is surely a simple one: does its fusion of genres amplify both of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2017
This mix of songs by pop/jazz composers who have worked with the classics, and vice versa, goes further than mere...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017
Lisa Delan has put together an enjoyable and valuable programme here. These are songs one hears rarely, if at all;...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Rosalind Franklin (1920-58) was one of the 20th century’s most important scientists but she was deprived of her moment in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2017
Allmänna Sången was founded as an academic male-voice choir in the Swedish university city of Uppsala way back in 1830....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017
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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