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...
Patricia Petibon’s Lulu in Oliver Py and Pierre-André Weitz’s Geneva/Barcelona production is surely as complete and dangerous an assumption as...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2012
Oh my word, what have we here? A fat hardback, stocked with essays on the music, 18th-century diplomacy and the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012
To mount Meistersinger at Glyndebourne, even in its new theatre, is both a significant step further than Tristan and an...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
This might seem like yet another unfamiliar Vivaldi opera uncovered but the truth is more complicated. Giacomelli’s setting of Zeno’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
‘Girls seem either to want to marry me or kill me.’ Such is the lament of the beleaguered groom Vašek...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
With its temples, theatre and magnificent colonnaded street, Palmyra, the ‘Bride of the Desert’, is one of the best-preserved cities...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012
This recording, taken from concert performances in Baden-Baden, is based on the scholarly New Mozart Edition. But it doesn’t follow...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2012
Laurent Pelly’s production (Paris, 2011) is set imaginatively in the storeroom of a museum of antiquities, which includes famous classical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
Alessandro (1726) initiated the Royal Academy of Music’s new artistic policy of producing operas designed for a prestigious triumvirate of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2012
Everyone involved in this November 2010 live filming from the Bolshoi – Greek conductor, Russian director, Austrian and American leads...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
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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