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...
Benjamin Zander’s Philharmonia Mahler Sixth recording was riddled with tempo and texture miscalculations, skewed balances, expressive dead spots, plus generally...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
George E Lewis (b1952) is nothing if not a musical polymath: composer, improviser, installation artist, activist, trombonist, teacher (from San Diego...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
The music of Fred Lerdahl (b1943) may just be one of America’s great secret treasures. Here is a composer, now in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
The Baltimore-based pianist Chad R Bowles is co-director of the Peabody Piano Academy and the chair of the piano department in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
The recording catalogue is filled with performances of Bach’s Cello Suites in all sorts of interpretative guises. Many tend towards Romantic...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
Robert Livingston Aldridge and Herschel Garfein had a major success with Elmer Gantry, their opera based on the 1926 novel by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
The theme of Baroque arias for Cleopatra has been tried and tested before, notably by Isabel Bayrakdarian and Tafelmusik (CBC,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2017
Who knew that Franz von Suppé, composer of operettas (Die schöne Galathee, Boccaccio) and overtures (Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry),...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2017
Bianca e Falliero is a magnificent opera. Written for La Scala, Milan, in the autumn of 1819 at the high noon...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017
By all rights, Ned Rorem’s musical setting of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town should make for a perfect opera. Rorem is...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2017
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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