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...
Another Lully opera already from Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques – we had Acis et Galatée only in November....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
How do you recreate the shock of Handel’s Semele – the musical drama that sent a scandalous frisson through London...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
You won’t get far into the plot of Auber’s 1831 ‘petit opéra’ Le philtre without a faint sensation of déjà...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
'Voyage intime’ marks the start of a new recording partnership between Sandrine Piau and David Kadouch, already much admired together...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2023
Spanish early music ensemble Tasto Solo made ripples with their first three recordings – a diverse triptych starting with 15th-century...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2023
It had never occurred to me before to draw a Venn diagram showing the intersecting circles of lovers of the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
This album might borrow its title from one of Richard Strauss’s best-known songs and culminate in a moving performance of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2023
Hard on the heels of Le Poème Harmonique’s programme of Vivaldi and others (Alpha, 11/22) comes this all Vivaldi album...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2023
As Schubert’s posthumous fame grew, his most popular songs – which usually meant those published in his lifetime – received...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2023
Recordings of Rachmaninov’s Vigil service (‘Vespers’) used to be rare jewels in the choral universe, the domain, with some honourable...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
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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