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...
Der Wald (‘The Wood’) was the second of Ethel Smyth’s six operas and the first of her four one-acters: only...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
With over 350 performances across Europe in the first half of the 1920s, Der Schatzgräber (‘The Treasure Seeker’) was not...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2023
‘The public came in their droves to hear such delectable songs … finally cement[ing] the era of great revolution in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2023
The Homecoming of Ulysses, like its successor The Coronation of Poppaea, is a problem opera. It was first performed in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2023
Écho et Narcisse (1779) was Gluck’s sixth tragédie lyrique for Paris. Produced just four months after the first run of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023
This festa teatrale, composed in 1726 to mark the Empress’s birthday, was staged anew in Graz last year, part of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2023
Don Pasquale is a bellwether opera. The time was when it was widely seen as a comic gem – a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2023
Hot on the heels of the first recording of Desmarest’s Circé (1694) by Les Nouveaux Caractères comes Boston Early Music...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2023
The baritone James Newby’s debut album ‘I Wonder as I Wander’ (1/21) announced the singer as a vividly sympathetic balladeer....
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2023
How the choral music of Richard Strauss, lifelong atheist, has ended up on an album called ‘Credo’, only Hyperion can...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2023
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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