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...
Not just one but two naughty boys here. Rather than pair Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges with L’heure espagnole, Warner...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017
Although it was the first to be recorded, this Tosca is the third of Karajan’s Puccini sets on Decca to...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2017
The first production of Lully’s Persée (Paris, 1682) took place the same year that Louis XIV moved into his new...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2017
There’s some disagreement as to whether Jane Eyre is John Joubert’s seventh or eighth opera but, either way, he is...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
Apart from that operatic charmer L’elisir d’amore, I’ve come to the sad conclusion that Donizetti comedies are just not that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2017
Cesti’s L’Orontea, first performed in 1656, was immensely popular in its time. The easy appeal of its adroit manipulation of...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 06/2017
How timely that a recording of Laci Boldemann’s first opera, a satire on totalitarianism told through the story of an...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
The London Oratory Schola Cantorum Boys Choir sing weekly in the generous acoustic of the Brompton Oratory and the music...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2017
We will never know, write Trio Mediaeval in the booklet, what the innumerable ancient songs and tunes of the first...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, sing with tonal warmth, excellent tuning, impressive blend and without the clipped, prissy...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2017
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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