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...
Titon et l’Aurore was the third of Mondonville’s operas: first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1753, it was a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
The Mathis der Maler Symphony (1933 34) gets top billing here but it is the third recording of Hindemith’s still...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
This is an excellent successor to the album that Sandrine Piau recorded with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques 18...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2022
Leonardo García Alarcón cuts Semele copiously yet reinstates two numbers that Handel rejected and never performed. Part 1 is given...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
As with London buses, so with French recordings of Pelléas et Mélisande. When welcoming Pierre Dumoussaud’s fine Alpha set from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2022
Hans Abrahamsen was at work on let me tell you (3/16) when the Royal Danish Opera asked him for a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
This generous, natural-sounding recording was made in Potton Hall last summer. Guest soloist Katharina Konradi is not easily pigeonholed. The...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2022
Whose voice would you take with you to a desert island? Jacqui Dankworth would come close to the top of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles explore French song-cycles, familiar or otherwise, in an engaging recital, which also adds into the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2022
One of the earliest tragedies the Jewish people had to endure was the destruction of the Second Temple by the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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