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...
Vivaldi’s pasticcio was commissioned by Verona’s Accademia Filarmonico for their recently built theatre during the 1734-35 Carnival. The manuscript score...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020
This latest release from the annual Rossini festival in Wildbad in southern Germany is one of its more successful, and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2020
Updating Figaro is always likely to minimise the class tensions that underlie this most humane and (potentially) poignant of musical...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
We already know Mlle Cloclo – or do we? Along with Lolo, Margot, Froufrou and the rest, isn’t she one...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020
Henze was 32 in 1958 when he wrote Der Prinz von Homburg, five years into his self-imposed Italian exile and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2020
That Cesti’s La Dori had such a varied performance history says something about the changing tastes of 17th-century opera audiences....
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 11/2020
Born in St Petersburg to Swedish parents in 1840, Ingeborg Lena Starck studied piano and composition, completing her studies with...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020
A temporary reduction of music-making at the Vienna court during the War of the Spanish Succession prompted a group of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2020
Here’s a tonic for a melancholy year: a one-act comic opera by Malcolm Arnold, unstaged in the composer’s lifetime and...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020
Ian Page and The Mozartists’ second dip into the Classical-era repertoire subset called Sturm und Drang alights on the sine...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
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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