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...
If you’ve heard his recordings of the symphonies with the LPO (1/18) or his recent Sleeping Beauty (12/17), you’ll already...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
Based on Pushkin’s tale, Rimsky-Korsakov composed his final opera The Golden Cockerel in 1906 07 (it was premiered posthumously) as...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
The 1954 visit of the Vienna State Opera to London’s Royal Festival Hall with a Mozart/da Ponte cycle on improvised...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
Jan Philipp Gloger’s production of Così fan tutte met with mixed responses when it was unveiled at Covent Garden in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
In tandem with Martina Franca’s Valle d’Itria Festival, Dynamic has produced another live double (CD and DVD, available separately) of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
Massenet’s Werther makes for bleak viewing at the best of times. Goethe’s lovesick poet stumbles around after Charlotte (who’s already...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
At last! Anyone fascinated by fin de siècle Vienna will have heard of Richard Heuberger: friend of Brahms and outspoken...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2018
When Daniela Dessì died in August 2016, the opera world lost an Italian spinto in the old-school mould. This Blu-ray...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2018
In the late 1950s or ’60s, if you were studying for A level, the tragicomedy The Visit of the Old...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2018
In the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that an alien landed on earth and demanded to be brought up to speed on...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2018
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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