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 survey of American music for cello and piano includes a pair of standard works (the Barber and Foss) and...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023
Ashley Jackson’s new album may be relatively short but it is long on feeling and artistic connections. She pays tribute...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2023
The Shea-Kim husband-and-wife duo offer impressive performances of four works that require an equal musical partnership. The duo have won...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2023
Concertos are a popular format among contemporary orchestral composers: they not only tick multiple boxes in the commissioning process but...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 10/2023
Chandos already has a Parry catalogue to reckon with, including several of the secular choral works directed by Matthias Bamert....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2023
The Emerson Quartet’s farewell to recording on their retirement after a distinguished 40-year career is strikingly different from their Beethoven-Schubert...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2023
Conducted by Jakub Hrůša, Barrie Kosky’s modern-dress staging of Katya Kabanova caused a considerable stir in Salzburg last year. An...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2023
This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2023
One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023
In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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