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...
For his second Nonesuch project, Jeremy Denk follows in the footsteps of hundreds of pianists before him who have essayed...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2013
Ciccolini revives Vivaldi’s 1737 opera with reconstructed Act 1...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
Philippe Jaroussky’s conceptual recital unveils Porpora’s music for his pupil Farinelli. Frédéric Delaméa provides a fascinating essay about the overlapping...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
This whole idea falls on the fundamental misapprehension that a stage work is some kind of imperfect shorthand form just...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
‘Only the very wise can so clearly perceive the very obvious’ was one thought when the 81 year-old stage director...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
Like the first instalment of the Mariinsky Ring (Die Walküre, 5/13), this recording of Das Rheingold is the result of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
L’heure espagnole was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1911, coupled with the first Parisian production of Massenet’s Thérèse. L’enfant et...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
They have a good reason for mounting a new production of La fanciulla del West at the Royal Swedish Opera,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013
In April 1961 Venice’s august Fenice opera house witnessed the explosive premiere of Luigi Nono’s ‘azione scenica’ Intolleranza 1960. What...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
This is a follow-up to the Don Giovanni conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin that I welcomed recently (DG, 12/12). Mojca Erdmann...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
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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