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...
Joseph C Phillips Jr’s immersive multimedia opera The Grey Land takes its title from Richard Wright’s novel of alienation, Native...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2021
Musicians have felt an increasing urgency over the past year to become engaged with issues of social justice. Imani Winds...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2021
The Catalyst Quartet certainly live up to their name. The musicians are devoted to changing the way audiences perceive classical...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2021
Aficionados of contemporary music will already be familiar with the name Robert Carl as a writer. He has authored extensive...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 04/2021
‘I’ll be 34 by the time it’s released’, Lise Davidsen says in the booklet for her second solo album, ‘so...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021
Rooted in folk song and Teutonic peasant myth, Weber’s opera with the famously untranslatable title is the epitome of German...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2021
Arguably Lohengrin remains one of Wagner’s most problematic operas to stage today, walking a tightrope between aggrandising and critiquing ideas...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2021
Transylvania may not be the first location you would think of to track down Puccini’s operatic spaghetti western on disc,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2021
Let’s be honest. Whoever came up with the title for this release needs to think again. ‘Royal Handel’? That’s odes,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2021
Between 1706 and 1709 Christoph Graupner composed five operas for Hamburg’s Gänsemarkt opera. Antiochus und Stratonica (1708) is one of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2021
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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