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...
Fabio Biondi’s recording of The Raftsman was made in tandem with concert performances of the work given in Warsaw to...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020
This Cav & Pag might easily pass by unnoticed: recorded live in Graz, it has only one big name to...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
Janáček’s final opera From the House of the Dead can be a difficult work to stage. Based on Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020
Heavy funerary iconography, Rossellini lighting and an unflinching gaze at la famiglia places Krzysztof Warlikowski’s staging of The Bassarids somewhere...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020
Detlev Glanert’s ninth and newest opera begins musically at an imagined confluence of the Thames and the Vltava, but the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020
For her debut recital album, the German soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller covers a century of song from late Schumann, via early...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
‘A triptych: three images, three perspectives of transfigured nights’ is how Barbara Hannigan describes her second collaboration with the Ludwig...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020
Hege Høisæter spent 14 years in the soloist’s ensemble of the Norwegian Opera before her retirement in 2016 and has...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020
If Papagena were an all-male a cappella ensemble rather than an all-female group they would be household names in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2020
Though never just another pretty baritone voice, Stéphane Degout takes his dramatic sensibility to a new level in this ‘Lieder...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2020
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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