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...
Don Quichotte was the fourth opera commissioned from Massenet by Raoul Gunsbourg, director of the Monte Carlo Opéra. The title-role...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
The next logical step for Jake Heggie’s hit opera Dead Man Walking would seem to be a DVD. In its...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2012
Regardless of one’s admiration for Mariusz Kwiecien´’s singing on this disc, the programming fills a valuable niche: the smartly chosen...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Australian ears might apprehend this disc with less puzzlement. The iconic significance of Joan Hammond is more obvious to those...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2012
Despite his bizarre fears about stage directors (see Gramophone, A/11), Marek Janowski is no slouch when it comes to imparting...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2012
Is La forza del destino Verdi’s best shot at Il re Lear? A grand-opera update of late Donizetti and Bellini...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2012
The quietly progressing Telemann renaissance means that nowadays admirers are quick to praise the finesse of his best instrumental compositions...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2012
Students of art history have almost as much reason to thank Glyndebourne for this DVD as opera lovers. A video...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2013
Hard on the heels of Armide (10/11) comes this equally splendid DVD of Atys. How the production came about makes...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2012
Michelangelo Falvetti, maestro di cappella at Messina Cathedral during the 1680s, is almost as obscure a figure as you can...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2012
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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