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...
Craig Morris’s Grammy-nominated tribute to Philip Glass, who was honoured in December at the Kennedy Center alongside Cher, Reba McEntire...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2019
The three compositions on these two new – half-filled – releases (best thought of as CD singles) each explore a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019
One usually thinks of Brahms’s Hungarian Dances as light music, but evidently Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker does not. The levity and whimsy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019
Having impressed on previous Baroque releases for Erato (Handel’s Partenope and Philippe Jaroussky’s ‘Storia di Orfeo’ composite, 12/15, 4/17), the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2019
What we have here is the epitome of what we Brits call a ‘Marmite’ experience, with elements to love and/or...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019
If you find yourself torn between a smoke-and-whisky-pickled cabaret take on Kurt Weill’s ballet-with-song Die sieben Todsünden (‘The Seven Deadly...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2019
Israeli-born, Paris trained and, as a guitarist, naturally steeped in the Spanish repertory, Liat Cohen here sets out to ‘tell...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019
The Chapel Royal’s place within English music can hardly be overstated: during the reigns of the later Tudors its membership...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2019
Othmar Schoeck is probably best known for his song collections, continuing the melancholic romanticism of the Schubert-Wolf tradition into the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2019
Soprano Anna Dennis hasn’t got the classic Purcell voice. Look through the composer’s discography and you’ll find Emma Kirkby, Barbara...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2019
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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