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...
In 1967 six choral scholars from Cambridge founded a singing group and accidentally started a phenomenon. Photos of the original King’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2017
This is Gardiner’s second recording of the Christmas Cantata No 151, which dates from Bach’s golden period of cantata composition, two years...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
This is a takeover from Berlin of a Peter Sellars platform staging of Debussy’s opera. Sellars’s directing of the cast (identical in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2017
Hector Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens has been lucky on disc. Complete recordings have been few but they’ve tended to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
Philip Martin is a fine pianist, as anyone will attest who has in their collection his invaluable account of the complete...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
The Van Cliburn International Competition does not have a great history of choosing winners. The 28-year-old Yekwon Sunwoo from South Korea...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
As the booklet essay reminds us, Jorge Bolet’s ascent to the top was painfully slow. Throughout the late 1940s and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
I’m not sure if these 2006 recordings have previously been released in the West but they provide my first exposure...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
We may currently be thinking of Cédric Tiberghien in terms of his fabulously colourful Bartók cycle or crystalline Mozart sonatas with Alina...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
It’s not surprising to find Nelson Goerner, a pianist renowned for his poetry, recording Chopin’s Nocturnes. Certainly, the impression left by...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
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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