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...
La Tempête’s projects always give one plenty to think about. Here their subject is sleep and its metaphorical adjunct, death,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2022
While many musicians experienced meltdown during lockdown (for understandable reasons, of course), others found creative and artistic freedom in the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 03/2022
It’s like the teacher’s pet bursting out in a hail of expletives, or a Hollywood good girl gone suddenly bad:...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2022
We begin high up in the atmosphere with a chord that shimmers into being like the opening of Ralph Vaughan...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2022
Though Sarah Wegener has an extensive discography, the majority of her recordings are ensemble efforts with concert works ranging from...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2022
For the first release of his new relationship with Alpha, baritone Benjamin Appl dives deep into the wintry heart of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2022
A surprise awaits those expecting the voices of soprano Jodie Devos and mezzo Adèle Charvet to intertwine in the anguished...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
Francesco Corti uses orchestral pieces to creatively flesh out a programme presenting a pair of Handel’s best-known cantate con stromenti....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2022
Despite the dire predictions of certain doom-mongers, the quality of British liturgical choral music commissioned in the past few years...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2022
Following its Schubert intégrale, Naxos is now launching a complete Brahms song edition, masterminded and annotated by Ulrich Eisenlohr. The...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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