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...
The bold claim that this is ‘the first recording of the Vespers in the alternative version proposed by the composer,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2019
Of all Lerner and Loewe’s Broadway shows – and it’s a small but perfectly formed list – Brigadoon has to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019
When it comes to a cappella vocal compositions, Benjamin Britten never surpassed A Boy was Born, the ‘choral variations’ he...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019
Made in tandem with a series of concert performances in Melbourne last year, Andrew Davis’s new recording of L’enfance du...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019
Defining a characterful selection of Bach’s vocal music can often be as elusive as the musical material itself. This skilfully...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2019
The American tenor Stephen Costello needs no introduction, but he’s reintroducing himself anyway with this new disc of bel canto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2019
Stiffelio has often been appended the tagline ‘Verdi’s most unjustly neglected opera’. It comes immediately before his Rigoletto-Trovatore-Traviata trio of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2019
The more I listen to it, the more Daphne strikes me as among Strauss’s most moving and heartbreaking works: a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2019
In 1938 a manuscript copy of La Doriclea was found in Rieti (a small town in the Sabine hills) by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2019
The Festivities of Hymen and Cupid was the second collaboration between Rameau and the librettist Louis de Cahusac. It began...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2019
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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