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...
La traviata has surely been subjected to as many directorial rethinkings as any opera in the repertoire, with Peter Konwitschny’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020
Staged at the Opéra-Comique to mark the 150th anniversary of its premiere in the slightly grander setting of the Opéra,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020
There is a sense in which Zelmira, the last of Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, premiered in February 1822, is an elegantly...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2020
Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) is best known nowadays as the composer of Leonora (1804), based on the same subject as Fidelio,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020
Handel’s first opera, Almira (January 1705), is the only one of his juvenile works for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt theatre that survives...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2020
When a director turns an opera eroica into a meta-theatrical farce, one has to question whether she happens to believe...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
All roads lead to Josquin, even those routed through the Iberian peninsula. This superb new recording from Owen Rees and...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2020
Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton’s new album takes its name from the penultimate song of Walton’s A Song for the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2020
Along with Tallis, Byrd and Gibbons (and, later, Purcell), Thomas Tomkins was a member of the Chapel Royal – the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2020
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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