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 heyday of electroacoustic composition, arguably from the 1950s to the 1970s when it was a vital strand of avant-garde...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in the music on her new CD, ‘Reactions’, which comprises works composed...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2022
Samuel Adler (b1928), who studied with Copland and Hindemith, taught for 63 years at the Juilliard and Eastman schools of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2022
This selection of airs and duets from – mostly – French operas reflects the careers of two sopranos who were...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022
The American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen has been building an impressive international career for over a decade, as well as walking...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
The album cover for Florian Sempey’s new album shows the French baritone clearly having fun accosting a Rossini bust, and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2022
For many years I’ve been trying to persuade people that The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev’s best opera. The others have...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2022
Filmed during its opening run, Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando was the first full‑length opera by a female composer to be performed...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2022
Two productions of Così fan tutte by Sven-Eric Bechtolf have already appeared on DVD: from Zurich, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2022
Sondra Radvanovsky became the first soprano to sing Donizetti’s three Tudor queens – Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Elisabetta (in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2022
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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