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...
Marius Neset (b1985) has now emerged among the leading jazz practitioners, and this release with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2022
As this final chapter of Adám Fischer’s distinctive, occasionally inspired Mahler cycle draws to a close, dare I say that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2022
Within just five years of its publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel inspired a stage play that became...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 02/2022
How good is your French? The two parts of Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path – the 10 pieces published in...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
Israeli-born, Hanover-resident Sharon Kam (b1971) studied with Charles Neidich at the Juilliard School in New York. In a successful global...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Eleven volumes and 35 symphonies down, Giovanni Antonini now reaches a third of the way through his Haydn cycle with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2022
This double-CD set offers a valuable and absorbing selection of Hanns Eisler’s songs and shorter orchestral works from across his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2022
Following the solo cello’s emotional declaration at the opening of Elgar’s Concerto, the violas begin a quietly doleful, lilting tune...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
We’ve had a bumper crop of historically informed recordings of the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2022
Readers of Jules Verne will remember that among the treasures of human civilisation that Captain Nemo assembled in the library...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2022
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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