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 warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024
This classically conceived and executed recital gives us a few of the usual suspects (the two Gabrielis and Monteverdi) but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Soprano Ruby Hughes’s previous album, ‘Echo’ (1/23), focused mainly on Baroque and contemporary repertoire, with occasional nods towards folk music....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
This is the first new recording of Tippett’s wartime masterpiece since Colin Davis’s LSO Live version of 2007 and it...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024
Lieder recitals such as this are a reminder of what’s often missing in others: hallmarks include clean vocalism, unaffected treatment...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2024
Concert pianist meets cabaret star sounds like an idea conceived by an eager A&R executive in search of a fresh...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards 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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