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...
What we need at this point in the game – especially as Duke Ellington’s Third Sacred Concert, recorded in Westminster...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW16
Though Brahms’s two sets of Liebeslieder-Walzer were conceived with the domestic market in mind, they have inevitably attracted starry quartets...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16
The five discs The Marian Consort have so far released focus on music written between the 15th and 17th centuries,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW16
This is the opera that gained notoriety at its UK concert premiere at London’s Barbican, when Gergiev turned up an...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16
Few 19th-century composers wrote for mezzo-sopranos quite as brilliantly as Rossini and few mezzo-sopranos can resist embracing Rossini’s vocal pyrotechnics...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW16
Sven-Eric Bechtolf, the drama director of the Salzburg Festival, has been tackling the Mozart/da Ponte comedies in reverse order. Figaro...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW16
‘Cursed be your secretiveness, which is to blame for everything that has happened!’ Don César rails against his mother in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW16
For the last 16 years of his life, Debussy worked intermittently on a pair of one-act operas based on the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
This Fidelio was among the high-profile offerings at the 2015 Salzburg Festival. Jonas Kaufmann led the cast with the excellent...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16
The organ of the McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh, is now back in action after a major overhaul. Built in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
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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