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...
The libretto of Lotario (1729) was adapted from Orlandini’s Adelaide, which Handel had probably heard recently in Venice while recruiting...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2018
Back in 2004 a rising young countertenor released his first solo recording of arias by Handel and Mozart (Arte Nova,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2018
The general consensus is that Bizet’s first mature work is a decent piece of music but not such a great...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018
Hot on the heels of Opus Arte’s release of the Royal Opera’s new Norma, given a guarded welcome by Neil...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2018
Daniel Barenboim’s first solo Debussy CD is not as new as it appears. The Préludes Book 1 comprise the soundtrack...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
The concept behind Lise de la Salle’s ‘Bach Unlimited’ is to interweave music either written by or inspired by JS...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
Like APR’s earlier release of Hambourg’s complete Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (1/06 – a gramophone first), this selection of 49 different...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018
Karol Szymanowski was neither one of the 20th century piano-virtuoso-composers on the model of Bartók or Prokofiev nor an ardent...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2018
I began with Suite No 2 for no other reason than I felt like listening to something robust and bracing....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018
In Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrushka, David Jalbert begins the ‘Russian Dance’ at a promising clip, only to slightly slow...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2018
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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