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...
Romeo Castellucci’s production of Salome bowled me over at last summer’s Salzburg Festival. I’m pleased to report that it transfers...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2019
Eduardo e Cristina is the operatic pastiche Rossini cobbled together for Venice’s Teatro San Benedetto in the spring of 1819....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2019
‘I can’t bear it any more’, cries the troubled protagonist of Wolfgang Rihm’s chamber opera from 1979, and we’re barely...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019
Forget the cherry blossom and other japonaiserie, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Glyndebourne focuses on the seedier side of the story...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2019
If you wanted proof of the adage that whereas English operetta is all about class, French operetta is all about...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2019
William Christie has conducted several productions of Poppea, including a staging by Pier Luigi Pizzi filmed in Madrid in 2010...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019
It’s been a good few years for Cav on film, presented alongside Pag on fine, thought-provoking DVDs from the Royal...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2019
His name may not be the first to spring to mind when discussing American minimalist music, but Jon Gibson has...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2019
Both John Relyea and Michelle DeYoung have recorded these roles before – both, as it happens, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019
This is an imaginary confection of a Mass for the Sun King. Music within worship at the court of Louis...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2019
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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