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...
Julia Bullock may have decided to call the album ‘Walking in the Dark’ but the soprano’s musical prowess, interpretative skills...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2023
In an era of chunk able, bitesize, hyperlinked, free-associative streaming, it’s lovely to come across a proper recital. The individual...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2023
‘This Island’ began as a literary odyssey by soprano Susan Narucki, yielding significant musical discoveries in songs by mostly unknown...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023
Listening to this recital I am reminded of a garbled quotation misattributed to Paul Klee, describing drawing as ‘taking a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023
Regular collaborators Philippe Jaroussky and Christina Pluhar join forces again for a French Baroque entertainment exploring airs de cour and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023
Randall Scotting is an American countertenor who stepped in at short notice to replace Tim Mead when Covent Garden mounted...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2023
This well-structured recital considers a well-represented idiom (the genesis of the Baroque style in northern Italy) from an unfamiliar standpoint....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2023
This is a gorgeously sung collection of Tüür’s choral music, beginning with a setting of the Trisagion, used in services...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023
This account of Les noces marks the recording debut of the complete work in its 1919 instrumentation that was supposedly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
For her second recording for Sony, Rachel Willis-Sørensen opts for Strauss, the composer with whom she is probably most closely...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2023
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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