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...
Theatre as artifice is the dominant idea behind Frederic Wake-Walker’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur – appropriately enough, perhaps, for an...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2023
Roderick Williams is one of Britain’s finest exponents of English song, yet one forgets that he is also a composer...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2023
Since graduating from the University of Bristol (where he studied composition with Derek Bourgeois), Russell Pascoe (b1959) has made a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023
Over some 30 years Rinaldo Alessandrini has recorded and re-recorded Monteverdi’s madrigals, combining and colliding them every which way. Most...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2023
There is no shortage of Handel aria albums around, but not all take as much care in the planning as...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2023
Beethoven’s early Variations on a Russian Dance from the ballet Das Waldmädchen by Wranitzky has rarely been played better. Vadym...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023
What interpretative variety Bohuslav Martinů’s cello sonatas inspire – from the intimate, understated eloquence of Josef Chuchro and Josef Hála...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2023
This is the third album to profile Icelandic composer Hugi Gumundsson, with a fourth on the way in 2023 from...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2023
It was during his student days at the Royal Academy of Music that York Bowen (1884-1961) first struck up a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2023
If the name Manuel Granatiero is new to you, you’re nevertheless likely to have heard his concerto appearances on several...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner 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...
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