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...
The Verdi Festival in Parma produced an austere and compelling production of Il trovatore in 2018 (in the rare French...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2020
Dutton is spoiling us. Not content to give us the first fully professional recording of Sullivan and Grundy’s ‘original light...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
Respighi’s Sleeping Beauty began life in 1922 as a small-scale piece, commissioned by the puppeteer Vittorio Podresca for performance at...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
The choice of French operas in the Palazzetto Bru Zane’s ‘Book+CD Series’ is wonderfully unpredictable. After Offenbach’s Maître Péronilla, praised...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2020
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992) lists 21 operas by Florian Leopold Gassmann but most readers would be hard-pressed...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
As one might expect from its Miltonic title, Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake’s ‘Paradise Lost’ takes the Biblical narrative of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
A co-production between Alpha and Palazzetto Bru Zane, Véronique Gens’s ‘Nuits’ is basically a recital of mélodies for soprano and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
There are few things more satisfying for a critic than watching a promising young singer blossom into a major artist....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
This imaginary Mass is constructed from motley liturgical pieces created for various unknown occasions during the first half of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020
I’m ashamed to report that this is my first encounter with the music of Ian Venables and it immediately set...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
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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