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...
Numerous fine ideas here – which only half worked. An all-Richard Strauss gala makes sense for Dresden (one of the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2015
Verdi-Wagner year fell in 2013. That was also the year in which two dauntless Rossini festivals decided to stage, complete...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s third opera, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Preceded by an old-fashioned Prologue...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood must be the most celebrated radio play of all time. The original 1954 BBC broadcast...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2015
Handel completed Tamerlano in advance of the 1724-25 season, but the tenor Francesco Borosini’s arrival in London prompted Handel to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
With a specification that runs to 146 stops and an amazing 36 couplers, the 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Trondheim is...
Reviewed in issue 07/2015
It may not go under the title of ‘Organ Fireworks’ but this latest offering from Christopher Herrick has all the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015
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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