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...
This new recording of Gluck’s most influential opera is also Franco Fagioli’s first release for DG since since he signed...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2015
There aren’t many grand opéra boxes left unticked by Herculanum, Félicien David’s only work in the genre and the 10th...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
If you hadn’t guessed this Arena di Verona production of Carmen was by Franco Zeffirelli, any doubts would be swept...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2015
I’ve enjoyed this disc a lot and return to complete playings of it with pleasure. That says much about the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: AW2015
‘Steer for the deep waters only’, exhorts the poet in the last movement (‘The Explorers’) of A Sea Symphony, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
Aida is the most classically concise of the great 19th-century grand operas yet it remains the one most closely associated...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015
It’s impossible to express too emphatically just how good the girls of the Wells Cathedral School Choralia sound on this...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2015
With the approach of the year’s end comes this smorgasbord of seasonal fare focusing on four of the 12 days...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2015
Back in May 2011 I derived much pleasure from a Somm anthology devoted to Ian Venables’s chamber music and now...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
This fifth volume of The Cardinall’s Musick’s complete Tallis edition features a coherent English set made up of Preces and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2015
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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