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...
Although I’d hesitate to place Pietro Scarpini and Rafael Kubelík ahead of Marc-André Hamelin and Mark Elder as a top...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18
Stenhammar consciously strove to fashion his Second Symphony (1915) in a ‘sober’, distinctively Nordic style that’s spiritually far removed from...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW18
This Nelsons cycle started with a bang – namely the most electrifying recording of the Tenth Symphony we’ve had in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018
Leonard Bernstein was the Honorary President of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1983 until his death in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018
How good is your Venetian dialect? Reissuing an opera like Verdi’s Falstaff without a libretto printed in the booklet is...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
This gripping production from Yekaterinburg was the belated Russian stage premiere of Weinberg’s most celebrated work, the ‘Holocaust’ opera Passazhirka....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2018
Post-war ‘new’ Bayreuth got off to a good start, recording-wise. All of its first 1951 stagings were caught live by...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018
Leonard Bernstein’s seemingly ambivalent fascination with Wagner’s Tristan had begun as early as the 1950s with substantial televised excerpts with...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2018
Successful during Respighi’s lifetime in both Europe and the United States, La campana sommersa was first performed in Hamburg in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018
Le Temple de la Gloire is an opéra-ballet to a libretto by Voltaire, first performed at Versailles on November 27,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2018
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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