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...
Anything as widely recorded as Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques needs to arrive in distinguished form to catch...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023
Divinity, Iestyn Davies muses in the booklet notes for his latest recital, is a term we use these days as...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
'Discomfort’ is the unexpected emotion guitarist Sean Shibe singles out in his introduction to ‘Broken Branches’. It was his discomfort...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
If you visit the Palazzo Colonna in Rome to admire Annibale Carracci’s remarkable The Bean Eater, along the same wall...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023
While much of Stanford’s large-scale music suffered increasing neglect after his death in 1924, his Requiem, commissioned for the Birmingham...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2023
Many artists have had lockdown projects, but few can have been as fundamental as Andreas Bauer Kanabas’s. As the German...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are recording so much these days that it’s hard to find a new vocal disc...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023
We know very little of Francesco Scarlatti, whose reputation has always been overshadowed by those of his elder brother Alessandro...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023
It was described by my colleague Fabrice Fitch as ‘one of Renaissance music’s hidden gems’, but I think it’s now...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 06/2023
Tying in with the composer’s centenary, this new double album of Ligeti’s a cappella choral music vies with the classic...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney 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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