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 Macbeth is the 62nd and final opera recording in English to be supported by Peter Moores – he started...
Reviewed in issue 06/2014
This comes from the third of the four consecutive spring seasons that celebrated Karajan’s return to the Vienna State Opera...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2014
We’re fortunate to have recordings of both the original 1737 version of Rameau’s opera Castor et Pollux (with prologue) and...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
Hindemith’s ‘Christmas story in three scenes’ has long been the Cinderella among his stage works, especially on disc. Although CPO...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
Lalla Roukh (1862) was the fifth of the seven operas of Félicien David, a French contemporary of Mendelssohn, born in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2014
Arriving just a little too late for inclusion in my comparative survey of West Side Story recordings for BBC Radio...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2014
Before discussing the music at hand, we need to address two incongruities. One: Shani Diluka calls her recital of 18...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
A new disc from Stephen Hough is always welcome. How will he surprise us this time and where will he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
David Geringas is very much of the school of his teacher Rostropovich when it comes to the Bach Suites: the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
For his first solo disc after winning the Gold Medal at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
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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