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...
Seasoned Donizettians will probably need a word of clarification when it comes this latest Opera Rara release; the less fully...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2016
Each of the 13 instrumentalists in this performance is listed separately in the booklet with a full-page photo and accompanying...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2016
Ferdinando Bertoni knew that he was tempting fate composing Orfeo ed Euridice, to the Calzabigi libretto famously set by Gluck...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016
The booklet essay for Orfeo’s latest Salzburg Festival excavation is entitled ‘Fidelio – an opera for conductors’. This historic broadcast...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2016
Operatic weddings tend to be eventful. Still, pity Count Rupert, hero of Balfe’s 1858 opera Satanella. Not only is his...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2016
Bucking the trend of their recent Delphian discs, this latest offering from the Merton College Choir abandons a thematic programme...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2016
In the third and last of their issues of 13th-century conductus arising from an AHRC research project at the University...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2016
Sensuality doesn’t so much ooze as burst in ecstatic, convulsive spasms from I Fagiolini’s latest recording. If it weren’t for...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2016
‘An exceptionally fine singer’, noted the much-missed John Steane in his review of Thomas Oliemans’s Schwanengesang (Etcetera, 3/11), while being...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2016
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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