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...
Over the last decade Karina Gauvin has proved herself one of the most delightful of Baroque sopranos. Her pellucid tone,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014
The Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice certainly does not skimp on its championship of sidelined French Romantic music. Here, in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014
This is the first version of the opera, composed for Vienna in 1762, with none of the accretions from the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014
In the theatre Donizetti’s well-sprung comedy usually seems to work like clockwork, so it is surprising there is no obvious...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 09/2014
The flute stands out here as being the most flexible instrument in the woodwind family, capable of prodigious feats of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2014
Nothing here need give Elton John or James Blunt any sleepless nights. For starters, none of these 30 love songs...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
When is an octet not an octet? When, as here, the flute, oboe and pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
The title refers to the Bolognese guitarist and theorbist Angelo Michele Bartolotti, whose lightweight Chaconne is included in the programme....
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 09/2014
This is the third of the Berlin Philharmonic’s solo trumpeter’s discs on Tudor and the most engaging. Tarkövi and Kofler...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2014
It is difficult to find a thread to join any free standing works for viola; but that its sound has...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
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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