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...
The American comedian Tina Fey has a deadly one-liner about the Oscar-spattered film 12 Years a Slave. ‘What a great...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2016
No chauvinism here on the staging side. A British team of David Pountney and Robert Innes Hopkins contribute to the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2016
How fascinating it is to have a first recording, and a very fine one at that, of what must be...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016
The libretto of Handel’s penultimate opera Imeneo is based loosely on the legend of Hymen, the Greek god of marriage:...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
Described by an eyewitness in June 1718 as a ‘little opera’, the origins of Acis and Galatea as an outdoor...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2016
Past assessments of the pianist Eugene Istomin (1925-2003) have too often delivered the metaphorical verdict ‘always the bridesmaid, never the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2016
At first glance one might think that the title of this disc heralds a selection of songs transcribed for cello....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
The Habsburg Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire following the Siege of Vienna in 1683, ending the centuries of Muslim incursions...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Among these piano trios’ defining features, optimism does not loom high. Smetana’s mourns his eldest daughter Bedřiška, who had just...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2016
This is the second release on Alpha to celebrate the 70th birthday of Jos van Immerseel. The first was a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016
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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