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...
Joana Mallwitz’s first recording for the yellow label is something of a triumph. The programme is generous and will hopefully...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024
This is the second instalment in the Pacifica Quartet’s three-disc project exploring the ‘sounds of America’ in anticipation of the...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024
‘Between Breath’, the New Focus label’s fourth release devoted to music by Scott Wollschleger, contains four premieres written over a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
Having released upwards of 20 albums over a period of nearly 30 years, primarily for his own jazz quartet and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
Composers grapple with the subject of death in myriad ways, most directly through settings of the Requiem Mass or variations...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2024
There’s something grimly irresistible about Zemlinsky’s short and sharp Eine florentinische Tragödie (premiered in 1917). Based on Oscar Wilde’s fragmentary...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024
This is the best recording we have yet had of Ermione, Rossini’s Classically inspired masterwork derived from Racine’s Andromaque, the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024
Following her examination of music associated with Pauline Viardot (11/22), Marina Viotti gives us Mozart arias, operatic and sacred, for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
Le carnaval du Parnasse (1749) was so popular that it notched up 35 performances in two months, and audiences at...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
This is the second DVD of Rusalka in three years to feature Asmik Grigorian in the title-role, and in many...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
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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