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...
The first two recordings in the Catalyst Quartet’s project exploring and, in most cases, introducing music by Black composers focused...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2023
The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic affected musicians in many different ways. Some gave virtual recitals over Zoom, others composed...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2023
For his third solo album, the dynamic American baritone Brian Mulligan has turned to three 21st-century American composers who are...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2023
BSO Recordings gave us no fewer than three winners at last year’s Awards, including Recording of the Year for the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023
Zoroastre, premiered at the Paris Opéra on December 5, 1749, was the fifth opera – and the first tragedy –...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023
Idalma (Rome, 1680) has parallels with Don Juan: the womaniser Lindoro keeps a list of his conquests, has deserted Irene...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2023
Nothing hits you with greater force in Opéra de Rouen Normandie’s performance of La clemenza di Tito than the Overture....
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2023
Martinů’s short one-act operas make for a bright and entertaining double bill, and they receive bright and entertaining performances on...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2023
This is the second recording of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. The first appeared in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023
Who, or what, are Les Abencérages, you might well ask. There’s a clue in the subtitle, which is ‘The Standard...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2023
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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.