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...
It has taken a while for this Rigoletto to appear on DVD. It was filmed in Barcelona in 2017, during...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023
This is a strange beast: a recording of a Verdi opera performed by a conductor best known for his Wagner,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2023
Three sets of reservations, appropriately enough, nagged at me as I sat down with this film of Christof Loy’s 2022...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2023
This is, by my reckoning, only the third audio recording of Cardillac, Paul Hindemith’s first full-scale opera, premiered in Dresden...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023
Nearly a century after the 1683 siege of Vienna, with the Ottomans now at a safe distance, Austria was in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023
In the literary world, this opera would be described as a page-turner. Logic seems just out of reach in The...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2023
History is full of stage works whose auspicious launch did not translate into frequent revival, Kurt Atterberg’s fourth opera being...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2023
Don’t be fooled by the cartoon cover – you haven’t accidentally bought The King’s Singers’ Disney disc (released back in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
Post-Karajan, perhaps, performances of Verklärte Nacht have been getting slower and slower, wringing out ever more juice from its pages,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023
A disc of Shakespeare song-settings – we all know the drill. Except, here, we really don’t. This new recital from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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