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...
A pupil of Ireland at the RCM (1935-39), Richard Arnell was shaped musically by those inter-war influences of post-Romanticism and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022
Here’s the most exciting tenor discovery to come my way since the appearance of Jonas Kaufmann on the big international...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022
Music for percussion is more abundant than one might assume. Beyond the confines of the symphony orchestra lies a vast...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2022
Little can be added to Andrew Farach-Colton’s detailed article in the November 2021 issue about the the life and art...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022
Karl Kohn, Professor Emeritus at Pomona College in California, where he taught for over 40 years, made frequent appearances on...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2022
Bright, brash, breezy: attributes one often associates with American orchestral music and which Peter Boyer (b1970) delivers in spadefuls. Right...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022
In the period since he made his first recording of music by Bach (2009), guitarist Jason Vieaux has explored a...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2022
To mix Wagnerian metaphors for an instant, the holy grail of Wagner’s Tristan seems to have been a frequent target...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2022
It’s a sure-fire bet that, in our age of ‘deconstructed’ stagings, two of the first items to disappear from view...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2022
The urgency to record Lisette Oropesa in La traviata was inevitable after her breakthrough 2015 role debut as Violetta at...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2022
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...
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.