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...
A decade after Stravinsky’s death in New York (my feature last month mistakenly asserted Venice), Alexander Goehr observed how his...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021
This collection is certainly a colourful affair, an old curiosity shop of a box among whose 120 CDs (selling for...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021
This varied selection of Catalan art songs by tenor Isaí Jess Muñoz, including one he and his wife Oksana Glouchko...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2021
The impetus for this debut album by Yuri McCoy was to celebrate the French Romantic organ and the gloriously rich,...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 05/2021
This is the fifth album that Trio Casals have released for Navona in their ‘Moto’ series. The line-up has changed...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2021
Carl Vollrath’s (b1931) music for clarinet has been well served by Navona on three previous releases and this new two-disc...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2021
Given the option to pair one Scriabin and one Rachmaninov sonata, most young pianists would choose the latter’s popular Second...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2021
Ludovic Tézier has arguably been the leading Verdi baritone on the global stage for the best part of a decade...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2021
When I surveyed available recordings for a Collection on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Ariadne auf Naxos (2/14), it was a live...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2021
When the nepotistic Barberini fell from grace after the death in 1644 of Pope Urban VIII, the deceased pontiff’s nephews...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2021
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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