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...
Few young conductors treading the current circuit tick as many boxes as does Gustavo Dudamel, what with his obvious charm,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
Anyone in Beethoven’s orchestral world who ventures beyond the well-travelled symphonic trail has some remedial work to do – first...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 08/2013
Nixon in China has appeared amidst a blaze of publicity, and suddenly John Adams is a household name. Created in...
Reviewed in issue 10/88
The Meistersinger Overture’s sprightly pace (heading towards a total playing time of less than 10 minutes), the crisp Toscanini-like timpani...
Reviewed in issue 08/2013
Until Samuel Ramey took up the title-role in the 1980s, Verdi’s ninth opera was known less from performances in the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2013
Though Strauss worked feverishly to be frivolous in so many of his later works and often created fascinating operatic hybrids,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2013
Sir Colin Davis brought his Mozart and Berlioz experience to Weber and Kind’s early Schauerromantik opera throughout his career –...
Reviewed in issue 08/2013
You might wonder why an obscure opera buffa by Domenico Scarlatti’s nephew Giuseppe has made it to a slick new...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 08/2013
>La Salustia (Naples, 1732) was the 21-year-old Pergolesi’s first serious stage work. The libretto is an adaptation of Apostolo Zeno’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013
Yet another DVD of L’incoronazione di Poppea, and the second within a few years to be conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2013
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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