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...
No 18th-century Italian opera composer worth his salt could resist Didone abbandonata, the libretto that made Pietro Metastasio’s name. With...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019
The existence of two competing Italian opera companies in London during the mid-1730s is a story that is sometimes told...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2019
Call me jaded, but in a saturated marketplace any new disc of Handel arias needs careful planning. Here we have...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2019
In hotels things can fall apart. Dramas from Psycho to Peep Show have used hotel rooms as an outer expression...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019
Since it was unveiled at last year’s Glyndebourne Festival, Keith Warner’s handsome and perceptive staging of Barber’s Vanessa has probably...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2019
Arne’s The Judgement of Paris, about the notorious mythological beauty contest that eventually provoked the Trojan War, was first performed...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2019
What a delight is this sixth and latest release from John Williams’s own JCW Recordings. Indeed, it takes me right...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2019
For his latest solo CD, Melvyn Tan offers works by Ravel alongside pieces by other composers that somehow mirror the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2019
The piano is a Broadwood from 1816, the two sonatas works composed during Haydn’s visits to London for such an...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019
It may seem curious that of the 10 works (counting the Brouwer Estudios sencillos – ‘Simple Studies’ – as two,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019
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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