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...
There isn’t much in Hans Abrahamsen’s recent output that doesn’t owe its existence, in some form or other, to his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2022
Having recently tasted Pygmalion’s ravishing performances of two Bach cantatas for solo soprano with Sabine Devieilhe (Erato, 12/21), I sensed...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2022
I suspect that the six works featured here would be unlikely items in most selections of vintage Americana. All credit...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
In their extensive booklet note as well as in the varied programme they’ve assembled, violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
The five piano sonatas of George Walker (1922-2018) reveal the trajectory of his creative evolution, as well as the kind...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2022
Where has Florence Price been all our lives? Waiting for the world to open its ears and consciences to composers...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2022
Flautists will, I think, be rather excited by this disc. Transcriptions for flute of major works for violin is nothing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
There are three stories being told here. The first is that, contrary to what people may think, the tenor was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2022
Amare e fingere was staged in Siena in May or June 1676 but might have been first performed in Rome...
Reviewed in issue 03/2022
This is the second staging by the Rossini in Wildbad Festival of L’occasione fa il ladro, the richly freighted one-act...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2022
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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