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...
All the principals involved in this second instalment of Simon Rattle’s Bavarian Ring in progress have extensive stage experience of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
The German regisseur Tobias Kratzer has found an interesting frame story through which to parallel and illustrate the dramatic conflicts...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020
This latest collaboration between György Vashegyi’s Hungarian musicians and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles is another triumph. Despite...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2020
Call me insular, but I’d not previously heard of Florida contralto Avery Amereau. I’m glad I have now. Her burnt...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020
Semele is a work that deserves more recordings than it has had. What should by rights be considered the greatest...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2020
How many operas have been recorded more often than they’ve been staged? With the arrival of this superb new account...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2020
Adolphe Adam is most familiar to audiences today as the composer of Giselle, the quintessential Romantic ballet, but the majority...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2020
By sheer coincidence, ‘Solitude’ appears to be tailor-made for mid-2020, though this new disc of music by Purcell, Schubert, Dove...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2020
The name of this album may be familiar. Used by the Dunedin Consort for their release in 2003 with Delphian,...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2020
Rather like the underground laboratory wherein the eponymous scientific experiment took place, The Hermes Experiment’s calm exterior often hides a...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2020
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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