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...
Other ensembles have marked the Byrd anniversary with celebratory, large-scale offerings; The Gesualdo Six opt for the five-voice Mass, framed...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
This selection of works by the composer of the well-known Membra Jesu nostri showcases a range of vocal scorings against...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
Agata Zubel (b1978), a Polish composer and singer who has worked with some frequency with electronics, describes Oresteja as a...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2023
It’s Boris Godunov, but not as we know it. Gone is the grandeur and melodrama, the uprising, the fountains, dancing...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 09/2023
>‘Berlin: whenever I hear that name I simply have to smile!’ If you’re after a recording of ‘Berliner Luft’, the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2023
Librettist Thomas Morell modelled the story of the martyrdom of Theodora and Didymus during the reign of the Roman emperor...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2023
The Franck bicentenary last year saw something of a resurgence of interest in Hulda, his third opera, completed in 1885,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2023
Here is another opera more familiar from the history books than in the theatre. It was staged in the Louvre...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2023
If you love the sound of German-Romantic horns, this album is for you. Topped and tailed by two miniatures for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023
‘Life-enhancing’ was how Richard Bratby described James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong’s Beethoven sonata cycle for Onyx on the release of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2023
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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