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...
Composed in broad strokes and paced with contemplative majesty, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is an obvious choice for the strong-minded...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012
This was the second opera that Donizetti composed to a libretto based on a drama by Victor Hugo. And he...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
If you love the operas of Cherubini and Berlioz – the latter, at least, would not have found that an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012
Andrea Bacchetti takes an unashamedly pianistic approach to Bach – and there’s nothing wrong with that. Thus he’s not afraid...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
Whatever one thinks of Plácido Domingo’s assumption of the baritone title-role of Simon Boccanegra, he has decidedly raised the opera’s...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012
‘We await a gripping modern Salome on DVD’: that was Mike Ashman’s verdict on the 2007 La Scala production (TDK,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012
A Karl Böhm Ariadne is not news. There are four predecessor competitors currently still available (a 1969 DG LP set...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012
And what, you may well ask, is Iphigenia doing in Thrace? Hoping to intercept Orpheus, before he is torn to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
William Kentridge’s production of Die Zauberflöte was first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2005. Since then it has...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
It could be years before we see a light-hearted production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail again. While relations between...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2012
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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