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...
Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
The road towards recognition has been a somewhat slow and circuitous one for Gregory T Glancey. Indeed, one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2024
Operetta recitals by star soloists have a long, if patchy, pedigree. Now Diana Damrau steps up, and it needs to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Individual elements of this Siegfried live up to the high standards set by the previous instalments of the BRSO/Rattle concert...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
It’s the night before Christmas, and while the villagers of Dikanka gossip and drink vodka, the Devil is up to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Filmed at the 2022 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Favorite is at once imperfect and significant: imperfect because there...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2024
Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024
Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Described as ‘Ireland’s premiere project choir’, Resurgam make their first commercial recording in collaboration with The English Cornett and Sackbut...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2024
‘Are orchestral versions of Schubert’s lieder really necessary?’ asks Benjamin Appl at the start of his booklet note. It’s a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2024
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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