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...
Gianandrea Noseda’s powerhouse recording of Il prigioniero marks his return to Dallapiccola’s music after a gap of 10 years. An...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020
It was in 2014 that Cecilia Bartoli donned her faux fur hat and headed to St Petersburg to unearth Baroque...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
For her first solo album in seven years, Aleksandra Kurzak makes a move into some unexpected repertoire. Her previous album...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
‘A lazy, coarse, shifty character, cunning as a fox’ was Mozart’s crisp verdict on Josepha Weber in a letter to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2020
Contrary to the chronic pun, Vinci neither composed an opera about Julius Caesar nor conquered Britain – although some of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020
In all but name, Miriways is a German-language opera seria, with a happy ending after the characters have confronted –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2020
The Vienna State Opera’s centenary production of Die Frau ohne Schatten last year was inevitably one of the hottest tickets...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
This fantastic series of Moniuszko operas with period-instrument orchestras continues apace with Straszny dwór (The Haunted Manor), a four-act work...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2020
Made in tandem with concert performances in Toronto last November, Andrew Davis’s recording of Massenet’s great parable about sex and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2020
After recordings of Wagner, Weber and Humperdinck for Pentatone, Mascagni might seem like a bit of a detour for Marek...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
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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