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...
Stradella’s serenata La Circe was commissioned by Princess Olimpia Aldobrandini, a Florentine whose deceased Roman husbands had been members of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016
This is the fourth in the series of Mozart opera recordings from the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden masterminded by Yannick Nézet-Séguin...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2016
Soon after the past year’s flurry from Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi, 10/15), Nézet-Séguin (DG, 8/15) and the Glyndebourne production by David...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016
Do you stay in the dream or wake up? Anticipating the red or blue pill choice offered to the hero...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2016
Under the Mediterranean sun, a young soldier falls hard for a free-spirited beauty – and sacrifices honour and happiness in...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016
It was slightly unfortunate timing that Glyndebourne scheduled the UK professional premiere of Poliuto just six months after Opera Rara...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016
The difficulty in writing about the piano playing of Martha Argerich is that it is now, and always has been,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
A lovely Handel and Mozart singer, Sophie Karthäuser here proves herself a natural in Lieder. In a discography dominated by...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2016
Few composers in recent times have so unequivocally brought their faith into the concert arena as has James MacMillan. Here...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016
Ešenvalds’s St Luke Passion (2014) plunges the listener straight into the midst of the Crucifixion scene, rushing strings underlying the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2016
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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