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 Crossing is an ensemble devoted to repertoire that expands the possibilities of vocal music even as it challenges the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2024
In her booklet notes and interviews, Tina Davidson puts an emphasis on the introspective nature of these five beautifully written...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2024
Bravo first of all to the Klenke Quartet for having the imagination to pair the Ravel String Quartet neither with...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024
Only in her late 20s, Russian-born Aigul Akhmetshina has caused a considerable stir of late after what can only be...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2024
The 21st-century Meyerbeer revival – much talked about, not all that tangible – is so far bearing more fruit on...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2024
Like Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique are working their way through the operas...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2024
‘A place where flecks of magic are chipped or hacked from mundanity – where the familiar and domestic are heightened...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024
With the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2023 staging of Antikrist, Rued Langgaard’s only opera received arguably its highest-profile production since it...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2024
Surreal? Avant-garde? Or just sloppy? In the booklet notes for this new recording of The Excursions of Mr Brouček, annotator...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024
If you enjoy Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, you might be pleasantly surprised by its successor, Gloria. That’s no aspersion on...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024
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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