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...
Imaginative programme concepts have long been second nature to Jenny Lin, who launches an ‘Études Project’ that pairs works by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2019
The Clarinettist Christopher Nichols and his musical crew (almost all from the University of Delaware) give affectionate performances of music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2019
I was rather taken with Keeril Makan’s hour-long sextet Letting Time Circle Through Us (New World, 12/17). Makan’s meditative take...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2019
The works by Mason Bates that tend to draw the most attention are his orchestral scores and the 2017 opera...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2019
Jakub Józef Orliński made his solo debut a year ago with a collection of sacred works (‘Anima sacra’ – Erato,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2019
Just a matter of months after the release of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s recording of the 1859 Faust (11/19), Benjamin Bernheim...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019
Not just a commemoration of a rare local event, this live concert recording – drawn from two performances and, presumably,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2019
It took a Paris-born theatre director of genius, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, to give us the definitive filmed staging of the Beaumarchais-Rossini...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2019
Confession time. Although it’s deeply unfashionable to admire Rimsky-Korsakov’s cosmetic surgery on Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, I admit to loving it....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2019
Handel the stage composer was not quite the finished article when he composed Rodrigo for Florence in the autumn of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019
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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