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...
Galina Vishnevskaya, one of the great Tatyanas of the 20th century, vowed never to set foot inside the Bolshoi again...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020
The feared Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick was full of praise for A Santa Lucia but then he was using Tasca’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020
If there’s one thing that last year’s Offenbach anniversary celebrations demonstrated, it’s the sheer inexhaustibility of his well of melody....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2020
The climax of Handel’s Italian sojourn, Agrippina ran and ran after its sensational Venice premiere early in 1710. As told...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020
After more than 20 years of frequent performances it seems right for the Hungarian composer/conductor Peter Eötvös’s adapted setting of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020
Both of these pieces have been recorded before, but this seems to be the first time that they have appeared...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2020
The very linking of Berlioz and the guitar still sounds like an improbable answer to a fantasy quiz question. Was...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020
Passions moved, passions shared, and the Passion of Christ on the Cross. This programme, a seemingly disparate selection of early...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 03/2020
Louise Alder’s recording presence moves into a considerably higher gear with this release – not her first recital disc but...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2020
Schumann’s bittersweet Heine cycle of love frustrated and love betrayed heads the billing here. But as in earlier volumes of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2020
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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