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...
‘Mitologia’ runs the title of the late Alan Curtis’s final Handel recording, a sequence of arias and duets on mythological...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016
The Spanish ensemble La Ritirata and its Artistic Director (and cellist) Josetxu Obregón present an ingenious programme that simultaneously celebrates...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2016
The pacing of Bellini’s dramas is a conundrum that should bother a director as much as the maestro. If a...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 12/2016
Evgeny Svetlanov was a giant among Soviet conductors. Formerly at the Bolshoi Theatre, from 1965 he was Principal Conductor of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
There tends to be a ‘usual suspects’ element to most Christmassy discs, but Alison Balsom’s collaboration with the orchestra of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2016
This is a curiously old-fashioned sort of disc – a programme of orchestral pieces by different composers, linked only by...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
Until a heart attack felled him in 2001, Giuseppe Sinopoli had been a loving and assiduous curator of the ‘Dresden...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016
In January Kristjan Järvi released, with his young Baltic Sea Philharmonic, a recording of his own reduction of Tchaikovsky’s Swan...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016
A Nutcracker is for life, not just for Christmas. Or perhaps not. Valery Gergiev has abandoned his 1998 Philips recording...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2016
The works on this disc – part of a leisurely continuing series from CPO – date from the period between...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2016
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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