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 rather attractive album highlights the virtuosity of American percussionist Lee Hinkle, principal percussionist of the 21st Century Consort (based...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024
The debut album by David Potvin – a young, prize-winning pianist based in Montreal – reveals a strong affinity for...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2024
The Crossing, the sterling Philadelphia-based chamber choir, continue their exploration of social and environmental issues with ‘Motion Studies’, a vibrant...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2024
You wouldn’t want to be going out at night in Los Angeles after listening to Adams’s City noir. Dark, menacing...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024
Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024
Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
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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