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...
Roberto Sierra (b1953) composed his Sinfonietta for string orchestra (2020) and Sixth Symphony (2022) expressly for Domingo Hindoyan – the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2023
It’s difficult to imagine a more New York composer than John Corigliano or, for that matter, to imagine New York’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023
US composer William Bland (b1947) uses ‘sonata’ as the title of both multi-movement works and the term becomes a sort...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 07/2023
The concept here is five (relatively recent) quartets, all constituted very diversely, performed by five different ensembles, but all the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2023
A fabulous opening from Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony. The scene from Riccardo Broschi’s Artaserse fizzes with life, though it’s a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023
This staging of Ariadne auf Naxos from Florence’s Maggio Musicale starts with a striking – not to say disturbing –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023
This appears to be the first digital recording of Nino Rota’s 1955 comedy after a French play by Eugène Labiche...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2023
It’s possible that in future times this set will be something of a collector’s item, thanks to the Isabella of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2023
There has been a resurgence of interest in Siberia of late as this is the second DVD of Giordano’s 1903...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023
Pipping Peri’s Euridice to the post by a full eight months, Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
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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