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...
What’s this? Roberto Alagna singing Colline’s Coat Aria from La bohème? Has he followed other tenors in (mis)appropriating baritone and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020
With a project as well realised as this, one reflects how Weber and Kind’s great 1821 work may still be...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020
Can it really be 25 years since the BBC ripped up the television schedules at short notice to broadcast the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2020
I have a pet theory that certain composers do their finest work with their lightest touch – and if you’ve...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020
This performance from 2017 is a re creation of the famous production first seen at the Salzburg Festival in 1965....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2020
Phaéton was the last of Philippe Quinault’s librettos for Lully to be based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. After its premiere at...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2020
Premiered in March 1789, months before the storming of the Bastille, Grétry’s take on the Bluebeard tale, as told by...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2020
When Leo Fall’s Die Dollarprinzessin opened in Vienna in November 1907, one critic concluded that Fall ‘was almost too refined...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2020
We recall that Fidelio was first given as Leonore – in Vienna in November 1805, in three acts – before...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020
A year after Ian Bostridge’s ‘Requiem: The Pity of War’ (11/18), here comes another British singer with a moving commemorative...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2020
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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