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...
Out of an opening cry and terse introduction, Kim Cook rises magnificently in Paul Reale’s Cello Concerto against a landscape...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2024
So many composers have been neglected in concert halls and opera houses due to prejudice that devoted musicians have decided...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024
>Like most earthlings during the coronavirus pandemic, Louis Karchin had an inordinate amount of time on his hands. He responded...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2024
Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra was an important turning point, both in Rossini’s career and in the development of serious opera in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2024
Here’s a Cavalleria rusticana with a difference. Not only do Thomas Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann forces offer historically informed...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
Premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in 1779, Cimarosa’s breezy intermezzo comico L’italiana in Londra made his European reputation. Playing on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2024
This is only the third commercial sound recording of Médée (1693) – the first to come along in nearly 30...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2024
I’m all for full-scale operas that clock in under 90 minutes. And that’s far from the only good thing about...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2024
It’s appropriate that Alessandro Fisher’s debut on Rubicon should be a recording of a recital he gave at Wigmore Hall...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2024
Norman Del Mar’s version of In Windsor Forest (the cantata that Vaughan Williams compiled from his opera Sir John in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
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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