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...
With 2023 marking the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, you might be expecting a surge in recordings of his...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2022
This is a gripping if curiously conceived album, divided unequally between an entertaining clutch of sinfonias, concertos and trio sonatas...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022
Anna Clyne’s quotation from Tolstoy as the inspiration for her Shorthand – ‘music is the shorthand of emotion’ – serves...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2022
Usually, contemporary composers’ works are promoted by one or two labels, but the discography of Éric Tanguy (b1968) is remarkably...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022
To say that the works on this recording are out of this world would only be partly accurate, and it’s...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2022
Richard Danielpour’s Twelve Études may not expand virtuoso boundaries to the extent that Chopin, Liszt, Godowsky and Ligeti did in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2022
In 2017 the trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas was toured on both sides of the Atlantic by John Eliot Gardiner and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22
There have been some great tenor-baritone double acts down the decades. How many people, for instance, were introduced to the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW22
It is quite something to begin your principal conductorship of a major London orchestra with a work that is (a)...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW22
A rollicking tale of the sea, told by one of 19th-century Germany’s most beloved masters of comic opera. That’s what...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW22
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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