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...
This is the first version of Gluck’s opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, complete on one CD: not quite penny...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019
If Stephen Fry is planning a third volume of Greek legends, to follow Mythos and Heroes, he might balk at...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019
What would one give to time travel and hear the 18th century’s most deified, mythified castrato, who in London provoked...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019
If you’re watching the calories, stop reading now. This evocative collection of Viennese sweetmeats, of wine, women, song and Sachertorte,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
Released in time for Christmas, Stile Antico’s latest offering explores the Spanish Golden Age from Morales to Victoria. The centrepiece...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019
Early 18th-century Italian opera companies often cast female voices in male roles, and sometimes castratos took female roles according to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019
His may be an unfamiliar name but the Swiss composer René Wohlhauser (b1954) has gained a wide reputation for his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019
Early in his career Ralph Vaughan Williams was much taken with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 1881 collection of 100 sonnets, The...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2019
Barbara Strozzi (1619 77) published eight collections of chamber vocal music – almost all secular and most of them extant...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019
This attractive all-Schütz programme places his Christmas Story alongside other seasonal German- and Latin-texted works, culminating in the very Venetian-sounding...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019
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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