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...
In purely dramatic terms, Goyescas doesn’t amount to much: its plot is threadbare and its characters are little more than...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019
Literaturoper is what German writers (not uncritically) named a growing school of 20th-century composers who set librettos taken from compressed...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019
In some respects, Michael Fabiano was famous before he was famous. In 2009 he appeared in Susan Froemke’s feature documentary...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019
The origins of Lisa Bielawa’s video opera Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser reach back to the 1990s....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
Little is known about the origins of Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu nostri. It is cast as a cycle of seven cantatas...
Reviewed in issue 07/2019
So it’s vacation time for the Latvian mezzo. Sun, sea and seduction. True love may never run smooth but it...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2019
One of the outstanding composers of the mid-15th century, Walter Frye holds a special place in The Binchois Consort’s repertory....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2019
As the title suggests, the latest recording from St John’s College, Cambridge, is all about the spirit of place. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019
LEONARDO DA VINCI La Musique Secrète...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2019
Magdalena Kožená may be moving forwards in her latest album – her second with Pentatone – but she’s also looking...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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