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...
First, hats off to the Belcea and Emerson quartets for astonishingly accurate and coordinated accounts of the Lyric Suite, even...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015
The musicologist Stefano Aresi and his intrepid ensemble Stile Galante turn their microscope on the Milanese castrato Luigi Marchesini (1755-1829),...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2015
Not usually one to go overboard about Italians, Mozart was delighted with the singing of Francesco Benucci, star of Vienna’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015
This is the fifth performance since 2004 you may be able to access of the first Ring opera under Simon...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 10/2015
It’s wonderful to see Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta finally receiving its due. Peter Sellars’s quirky staging appeared at Aix-en-Provence this summer and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015
Rossini’s La gazza ladra, based on the story of a French peasant girl who was hanged for thefts later discovered...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2015
‘Pass by, epileptic dunghill without grandeur, hysterical trash-heap of plays and shows!’ The words are Fernando Pessoa’s in his ranting...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Here we go again. Sven-Eric Bechtolf is another theatre director who doesn’t understand Così fan tutte. Correction: he understands it...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2015
Hard on the heels of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s DG recording of Mozart’s Ottoman Singspiel (DG, 8/15) comes this radical version from...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
Thornton Wilder was one of the most musical of playwrights yet throughout his life rejected requests to set his plays...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2015
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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