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...
Gismondo re di Polonia (Rome, 1727) depicts an entirely fictitious title-hero’s multiple acts of clemency towards the rebellious Lithuanian duke...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
‘It’s not an opera any more, it’s a nightmare’, Saint-Saëns wrote in 1880, when faced with a request for a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2020
Now that Suor Angelica has reclaimed a place in audience hearts, Il tabarro is cast as the underrated third of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2020
Dubbed ‘a magical cabaret’ by conductor Laurence Equilbey, this is the album of a theatrical performance that, poignantly, was due...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020
Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up is one of the most successful and striking of a new generation of American operas. It...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 10/2020
A word first about presentation. Don César de Bazan was staged in 2016 by Les Frivolités Parisiennes. This is a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2020
Armide was the last of Lully’s collaborations with the librettist Philippe Quinault. It was staged at the Paris Opéra in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2020
Recordings of Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Sinfonietta represent major milestones in Simon Rattle’s early discography: the latter with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2020
For all his pomposity and eccentricities, the lordly Charles Jennens was Handel’s most rewarding collaborator. The relationship between two men...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020
There’s a post-Nietzschean agenda to this programme, according to Paul Griffiths’s booklet note, but neither Gubaidulina nor Schnittke, for example,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2020
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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