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...
Following a two-year interregnum, the tenure of Andris Nelsons as the 21st Kapellmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra was officially inaugurated...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018
In the world of the rebooted Leeds Piano Competition the prize means management and a recording contract. And while many...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2018
Anyone miffed that Zefiro’s recent Bach Orchestral Suites (4/17) didn’t contain the famous B minor work for flute and strings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018
Both these releases from Hespèrion XXI are revisitings of repertoire they have explored before, but in neither is there the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018
Why does everything nowadays have to be marketed with an angle, a message? There are no more recital discs, just...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018
‘How’, Ian Bostridge asks in a booklet note for ‘Requiem: The Pity of War’, ‘might one reflect the experience and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
Given the seeming reluctance of continental ensembles to tackle early Tudor polyphony, one must applaud Graindelavoix for taking on a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2018
L’Arpeggiata are the ensemble with the curl in the middle of their forehead: when they are good they are very,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018
The most successful numbers on Juan Diego Flórez’s previous album of popular Latin American songs (Decca, 10/06) were the handful...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
The Estonian Toivo Tulev (b1958) is one of the most intriguing figures currently working in a country that is not...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2018
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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