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...
The young German soprano Dorothea Herbert is clearly at the start of a promising career; a budding Wagnerian with several...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2021
Hedonistic ode meets bellicose Te Deum. On the face of it these two works make a left-field coupling. What they...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021
It has been well over two decades since Manfred Cordes and his scrupulously excellent period ensemble Weser-Renaissance Bremen released their...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2021
Britten and Canteloube make odd bedfellows, yet Mari Eriksmoen pairs them on her new Chandos album with the Bergen Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
John Butt selects an intimate triptych that illuminates different facets and functions of Bach’s well-appointed church music. Two Leipzig works...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2021
A triple celebration for Gautier Capuçon, this three-disc set simultaneously marks his 40th birthday, 35 years playing the cello and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2021
For his Chandos debut, the Polish guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger continues his love affair with the nuevo tango of Piazzolla while...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021
Despite the variety of piano brands and differing acoustic ambience throughout these live-in-studio performances recorded for the 2021 Sydney International...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2021
If, like me, you were enraptured by Michael Haneke’s 2012 Palme d’Or-winning film Amour, then this disc should come to...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2021
In 2014 Cathy Krier released an intriguing album programming Ligeti’s complete Musica ricercata in between two groups of Rameau keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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