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...
‘De Amicis sings beyond comparison’ was the 14 year-old Mozart’s verdict on the Neapolitan soprano for whom, two years later,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012
Without use of that word beginning with V that puts many non-Germans off (let’s call it ‘irony’ or ‘alienation’), Brecht’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012
Despite a steady increase in recordings of his major scores – this second digital Irrelohe joins Der ferne Klang, Die...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012
Metastasio’s libretto Adriano in Siria was first set to music by Caldara (Vienna, 1732), and subsequently adapted for many more...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2013
Composed for London’s King’s Theatre, Haydn’s Orpheus opera fell victim to aristocratic intrigue and power struggles, and lay unperformed until...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2012
Paul Dukas’s take on the Bluebeard legend has a libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck and a score that evokes both Debussy...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 02/2012
>Maria di Rohan is Donizetti’s penultimate opera, preceded by Don Pasquale and followed only by Dom Sébastien. It was first...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Having set up an opera house in Botswana, how best to go about creating the basis of a repertoire on...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2012
The booklet for this release tells us that it is not only a world premiere recording but that La Rosinda...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2012
Even more than in Glyndebourne’s other Britten opera releases, the pluses and minuses of live recording are the most important...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman 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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