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...
There’s a cunning (and witty) interplay of ideas at work here. Sport versus Art, better yet American Football versus Opera;...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2018
The challenging Malmö company from the southern tip of Sweden looked largely to France (and, intriguingly, to experience of the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2018
In a brief interview included as a bonus, the designer Es Devlin talks of the challenges of creating a set...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018
This opera, Bellini’s last, has a fairly silly plot, what with Cavalier Arturo abandoning Elvira on their wedding day to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2018
William Lyons’s brief but telling booklet notes for ‘The Topping Tooters of the Town’ read like a passionate cry of...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2018
In search of la petite phrase: what Francophile wouldn’t be fascinated by a recital devoted to the various real-life works...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018
‘Intuition, by Gautier Capuçon’: it sounds like an aftershave, and it’s a curious title for a distinctly counterintuitive collection of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018
It must be said that both the title and cover artwork of ‘Flame’ are of a decidedly ‘we’re giving you...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018
Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata begins with a melody low on the C string, and no expression markings: just the instruction piena...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2018
Look down the recording details at the back of the average CD and it’s rare to find the hour of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2018
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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