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...
Italian-born Sir Paolo Tosti KCVO (1846-1916) was the toast of Victorian England, singing teacher to the royal family and the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
Asmik Grigorian is undeniably one of the most exciting operatic talents on the scene today, as formidable performances as Salome,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
Nearly three years after I welcomed his fine disc of Strauss songs built around the humorous Krämerspiegel, Op 66 (7/21),...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2024
Top billing on the booklet cover of this latest and most welcome Stanford release from Somm goes to the 1910...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
Heldentenors have a surprisingly respectable recorded history in the most introspective of Schubert lieder, and Klaus Florian Vogt has the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
The discovery of a lost Puccini song might prompt shrugs from those who don’t know the composer actually wrote any....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2024
Mariss Jansons recorded the Requiem in concert in Amsterdam a little under six years before this Munich performance, with two...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
For lovers of 16th-century music there can be few nuts harder to crack than the Magnificat settings of Lassus. There...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 03/2024
'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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