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...
Guelphs and Ghibellines, a plea for unity from the hero: but we are in Dante’s Florence rather than Simon Boccanegra’s...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2017
‘I have a very strong feminist agenda. My focus for this opera is 100 per cent on the female characters.’...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
This was the production that should have marked Anna Netrebko’s role debut as Bellini’s turbulent priestess. Instead the Bulgarian soprano...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2018
Hyperion has been keeping Roger Nichols particularly busy of late, writing the notes for Steven Osborne’s Debussy recital (enthusiastically reviewed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018
After delighting us with the music of Jacobean and Italian Renaissance masters of the lute in his previous two recordings,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 01/2018
Sofya Gulyak builds her new Champs Hill release around a series of chaconnes, dating from the early 18th century through...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018
There’s a sense of care about the whole production here, from the specially created cover art to the choice of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018
Winner of the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, Dmitry Masleev delivers his six chosen Scarlatti sonatas, all in the minor mode, with...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2018
The first point worth making is that BIS’s recording of the featured Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin (Cremona, 1739) is extremely...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2018
The eventful and ultimately tragic life of Komitas (aka Soghomon Soghominian, 1869-1935) might well overshadow his legacy as collector of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
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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