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...
Although this is a far from ‘historical’-sounding performance, Christian Thielemann’s gives full due to Weber’s concertante-like wind-writing and to the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2016
Even a frustrated ballerina lover from the 1861 Jockey Club that disrupted the premiere of Wagner’s new Paris Tannhäuser might...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2016
To date Knappertsbusch has been represented in Lohengrin only sporadically on disc. This new discovery still provides a late throw...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2016
Kasper Holten’s first two stagings for the Royal Opera were, respectively, afflicted by too much emphasis on cerebral concept and...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2016
Even if you didn’t know a note of Smetana’s opera Dalibor, you’d be able to identify the composer. The bardic...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2016
There have been several other worthwhile DVD releases of La fanciulla del West in the past couple of years but...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2016
Jerónimo Francisco de Lima (1741-1822) was sponsored by Joseph I of Portugal to study for six years in Naples at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2016
‘My inspiration comes always from the voice. I have more records of old voices than I do of old pianists.’...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
Jura Margulis is a name that has not crossed my radar before. Clearly it should have done – and not...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
It is easy to think of Antonio Soler as the Scarlatti pupil who perpetuated his master’s sonata style with the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
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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