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...
It is a curious story. It’s 1956. A major record company, which already has three ‘live’ Bayreuth Götterdämmerungs in its...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012
‘A journey of love, fear, rage and despair’, proclaims Fabio Bonizzoni, with no hyperbole. Once or twice – say, in...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
A ruffian who rose too far, too fast? Or a more cultivated Scotsman who might have been king anyway but...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012
Memories and fantasies, in olden and modern times, all mingle and collide in this Stefan Herheim production of Eugene Onegin...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012
‘What musical riches!’ exclaimed Berlioz when he first set eyes on Rossini’s last and most subtly wrought operatic comedy in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2012
Though the emotional temperature of this Marriage of Figaro video runs high, warming up to it may take a while....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2012
As a nine-year-old in London, Mozart displayed his innate theatrical flair in a series of operatic improvisations that astonished the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2012
‘Lars Porsena of Clusium / By the Nine Gods he swore / That the great house of Tarquin / Should...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2012
The rehabilitation of Leonardo Vinci (c1696-1730) has been long overdue. He trained at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2012
French ensemble Amarillis set out here to explore two female characters who fascinated Baroque sensibilities, Dido and the Virgin Mary....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2012
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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