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...
William Bolcom has proved his compositional versatility in virtually every genre you can name. As a masterly pianist, he has...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017
The Swiss-American countertenor Terry Wey has taken roles in a number of Baroque opera recordings, as well as some Bach...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2017
When the South African tenor Johan Botha died in September last year, the opera world lost one of its most...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
Wagner’s final masterpiece has been well served on disc over the last few years, with new sets from Marek Janowski...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
Audiences at the Festival Castell de Peralada are evidently less concerned than many in the 21st-century opera world about how...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
In the last decade or so Covent Garden has hosted two pretty dismal passes at Verdi’s conspiracy thriller – three...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2017
Smut and sophistication rub shoulders in Ravel’s wonderfully sardonic sex comedy, first performed at the Opéra-Comique in 1911. It’s a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
Defeated by Pompey and sending a report of his own death, Mitridate returns to his kingdom to find that his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2017
Premiered at La Fenice in 1797, when Venice was occupied by Napoleon’s troops, Simon Mayr’s take on the Telemachus-Calypso legend...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2017
The name Carl Heinrich Graun won’t be familiar to many opera-goers – or indeed many singers. He was Kapellmeister to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017
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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