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...
Miss Stoyanova has made good records. ‘I palpiti d’amor’ and ‘Slavic Opera Arias’ (also in Munich for Orfeo, 11/08 and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2014
The Tales of Hoffmann, an opéra fantastique, was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in February 1881. Offenbach had been working on...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2014
The decision by opera companies to stage Mussorgsky’s original 1868/69 version of Boris Godunov is sometimes dismissed as economic expedience...
Reviewed in issue 05/2014
Beware: this opera may take you hostage with its ability to get under your skin and its willingness to use...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014
Iphigénie en Aulide was the first opera that Gluck wrote for Paris, where it was staged in 1774. It’s not...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2014
The birth of opera can be traced back to a few significant landmark events in Florence, such as Giulio Caccini’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Cellophony are a talented octet of young British cellists who for their second CD have put together a well-balanced programme...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014
Transcription is an art easily taken for granted in post-war music, making the inventiveness of a group such as Alpha...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014
Peter Whelan is striving zealously to explode the preconceptions the bassoon is subjected to. This programme of 18th-century music –...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
A fictitious letter excerpted in the booklet-notes to this attractive release paints a scene in which WF Bach ‘brings about...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014
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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