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...
Domingo Hindoyan’s interpretation of the Fourth Symphony is well paced, admirably attentive to dynamics and avoids any interpretative eccentricities. Solo...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2024
This vividly recorded account of Britten’s 1939 Violin Concerto is uniquely paired with the Double Concerto for violin and viola...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 03/2024
Born in London in 1954, Adam Pounds attended the London College of Music before going on to study privately with...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2024
This Katya Kabanova forms the second instalment of Simon Rattle’s LSO Live series of Janáček’s major operas, begun in summer...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2024
John Holt’s eighth recording for Crystal begins with eight pleasant recital pieces before finishing with a chamber music masterwork, Eric...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2024
The National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic may be an occasional ensemble, tied to annual festivals at the University of Maryland, but...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2024
Collaborative undertakings for the stage comprise a significant portion of Thomas Cabaniss’s oeuvre – not only operas but dance works...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 03/2024
With so many superb young string quartets active on the music scene, it is heartening to realise that the genre...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 03/2024
Verdi’s fourth opera, I Lombardi, comes with little consensus opinion, the music suggesting an overlooked masterwork though the beyond-pedestrian libretto...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2024
Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera, and The Nutcracker, his final ballet, premiered together at the Mariinsky Theatre in December 1892. Initial...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
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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