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...
Here I am again – three Recordings of the Month in a mere six months – though it’s not because...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2021
Inspired by her quest to include more music by women in her performances, Elisabeth Remy Johnson’s recital serves as a...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2021
The ‘Last Song before the News’, reflected in composer-violinist Una Sveinbjarnardóttir’s eponymous final track, is an Icelandic tradition, the playing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2021
The Antioch Chamber Ensemble recorded these choral works by Robert Kyr in November 2018 but the texts – many by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2021
The urge to compose is irresistible for many who are destined to make their livings in other vocations; among the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2021
Having played Bach’s Solo Cello Suites on a cello da spalla, an electric Baroque violin with ‘unlimited reverb possibilities’ and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2021
In the run-up to the Wagner bicentenary in 2013, Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera, began to nurture a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2021
Marking the centenary of its founding by Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Max Reinhardt, last year’s Salzburg Festival went ahead with a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2021
Critics scorned the first production of Dardanus in 1739 as dramatically incoherent and reliant on absurd supernatural interventions. This probably...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2021
On the day before the first performance of Monteverdi’s Orfeo on February 24, 1607, in the ducal palace in Mantua,...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2021
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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