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...
A spot of research – but not in the regular catalogues – should uncover around half a dozen recordings of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2019
The Merry Widow wasn’t born a billionairess, and before Lehár’s masterpiece was a worldwide smash – and long before it...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2019
This is really rather good. Styled a chamber opera, As One (2014) is also a sequence of 15 songs (with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019
Puccini and Busoni were among the composers who thought about setting Oscar Wilde’s steamy play A Florentine Tragedy as an...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019
Bel canto fans talk in reverent terms about Donizetti’s ‘Tudor trilogy’, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux. Beverly Sills...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2019
Released in the last couple of months, this striking pair of Cavalli recordings were both actually made more than a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2019
And still they come. Vols 59 and 60 in Naïve’s heroic complete Vivaldi Edition, now seemingly intent on the home...
Reviewed in issue 09/2019
Appointed music director at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 2017, Mark Williams is only now making his first statement with the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2019
This programme is built around two Mass settings and two manuscripts thought to preserve polyphonic music from the Papal liturgy...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2019
Tchaikovsky’s setting of the Liturgy has a fundamental place in the history of Russian sacred choral music. It was published...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2019
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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