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...
While Eugene Onegin is Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera, there’s a fair argument that The Queen of Spades is his best....
Reviewed in issue AW2015
‘Who will save Palmyra?’ the maidens cry in Rossini’s Aureliano in Palmira. Two hundred years after the opera’s 1813 prima...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW2015
Rimsky-Korsakov’s historical epic The Tsar’s Bride is given the Dmitri Tcherniakov treatment in this compelling production from the Berlin Staatsoper....
Reviewed in issue AW2015
This disc represents the fourth in what is an unorthodox discography being compiled by Jonas Kaufmann on Sony Classical. His...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2015
Although this comes from Hamburg, it’s La Belle Hélène and not Die schöne Helena. The director-cum-choreographer Renaud Doucet and his...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2015
Christian Gerhaher’s latest album was recorded live in concert in Freiburg earlier this year. Presenting a portrait gallery of Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW2015
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744) was regarded by his Neapolitan contemporaries as a learned composer. His contrapuntal abilities are scattered throughout the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2015
We all know that modern opera can be hard work; but Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli’s Experimentum mundi – An Experimental...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2015
Not so long ago, many new operas sought gravitas by basing themselves on wordy epics by known contemporary novelists centred...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015
This album follows an earlier recording by the same artist, accordionist Helmut C Jacobs, devoted to the fandango. The current...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott 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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