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...
We know European theatre traditions – and the first opera here does play at Easter (which Santuzza curses) – but...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Originally projected to be an Oedipus with libretto by Göran Gentele, György Ligeti’s 1974-77 commission for the Stockholm Royal Opera...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Handel’s first London opera caused a sensation on its premiere in 1711, as much for its spectacular scenic effects as...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2013
Basses in the 18th century rarely enjoyed star billing. Public adulation, with fees to match, was usually reserved for temperamental...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2013
Half-English and a colleague and friend of Debussy’s (a published correspondence exists), Désiré-Émile Ingelbrecht sculpts a rich, weighty but microscopically...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Glyndebourne’s summer 2002 Carmen was memorable for bringing Swedish mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter away from her habitual Oktavians and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
It is something of a miracle that a recording of Tristan und Isolde as accomplished as this one can emerge...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2013
If recorded another day, month or year, this Der Rosenkavalier – taken from the same 2009 Baden-Baden production that has...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013
This is a companion release to the warmly endearing performance of Verdi’s Falstaff (10/12) in which Carlo Maria Giulini led...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2013
Death is so frequently used as a dramatic device in Italian opera that the biggest shock a Puccini production can...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013
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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