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...
This album is something of an A&R executive’s dream: two Norwegian superstars – and exclusive artists for rival labels –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2022
The concept for Canadian-Trinidadian pianist Stewart Goodyear’s latest album is something of a puzzle. Its title, ‘Phoenix’, derives, so the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
Jonah Kim has taken Approaching Autumn, the title of Mark Abel’s new work for cello and piano, as the title...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
This is not the first time that Earl Kim (1920 98) and Isang Yun (1917 95) have appeared together on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
It begins with cello and viola answering one another in slow, sombre gestures. Two violins join the conversation, which builds...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2021
Paulina Zamora certainly has Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias under her fingers, and she plays clearly and cleanly at all times....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) was admirably prolific for a composer whose music was mostly neglected during his lifetime. His output includes...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 12/2021
Rameau’s Platée was described in its time as a ballet bouffon, an example of the kind of ambiguous, seemingly ad...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2021
Despite its luscious music, Massenet’s Thaïs doesn’t get many stagings, probably because directors have a hard time taking the plot...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
I vividly recall the first time I heard the great (albeit brief) Alleluia Duet at the close of Tableau 6...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2021
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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