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...
Following in Bach’s footsteps is never straightforward – few of the locations associated with him are quite what they seem....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2022
Here’s a delicious treat that should have all lovers of French mélodies salivating. Complete sets of Gabriel Fauré’s songs are...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2022
For his solo debut album, the Jamaican-American viola player Jordan Bak has put together a recital of daringly introspective music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2022
The American composer Joseph Summer (b1956) is no stranger to opera, having written several comic operas early in his career,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
For two minutes one hears an unaccompanied violin playing jagged short phrases, upwardly slithering long lines and discreetly deployed double-stops....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
I am prepared to bet that New Zealand-born composer Eric Biddington (b1953) is as unknown to the majority of this...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2022
Eleonor Bindman’s Bach pianism is all about clarity and order. Her strong and assertive fingerwork complements her firmly centred rhythm....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2022
Filmed at Palermo’s Teatro Massimo shortly before Covid struck in early 2020, this Parsifal represents one of the last productions...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2022
While themes of racial discrimination, injustice and racially motivated violence have simmered under the surface of the American musical theatre...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2022
First performed at the Paris Opéra in 1883, Henry VIII was one of the works, along with Étienne Marcel (1879)...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2022
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...
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