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...
Though I was familiar with the name of Jean-Paul Dessy as a conductor and cellist, this is the first time...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019
The Florentine theorbist Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681/82 1732) worked for over 30 years at the Habsburg court in Vienna. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2019
It’s more than 20 years since a clutch of recordings put Cardoso on the map, including one of his six-voice...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2019
These six cantatas for bass voice with only basso continuo accompaniment are in a manuscript preserved in Bologna but perhaps...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2019
The music of James Francis Brown (b1969) is one of Britain’s well-kept secrets. Too well kept for my liking. This...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019
Unlike several of the Mass settings Haydn made late in life for Prince Esterházy, Beethoven did not subtitle his C...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018
After Mozart (Sony, 1/14) and Rossini (BR-Klassik, 1/18), the Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka here presents a selection of meaty bel...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019
Venera Gimadieva burst on to the UK scene as Violetta in Glyndebourne’s 2014 production of La traviata (since issued by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018
Today Julius Caesar is all but synonymous musically with Handel’s Giulio Cesare. But, as countertenor Raffaele Pe here demonstrates, the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2019
A Macbeth cast entirely with Italians, with an Italian production team, filmed in Italy: this release has claims to a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2019
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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