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...
Admirers of European keyboard music of the 16th century will welcome this recording of Cavazzoni’s complete organ works. The programme...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2017
Evidence of Quirine Viersen’s pedigree in period performance is inescapable in her performance of Britten’s three cello suites, written for...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017
Early and late works make up the fifth and final volume of Paavali Jumppanen’s Beethoven sonata cycle. He brings a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2017
The newest role Elı-na Garan∂a has added to her stage repertoire is Léonor in Donizetti’s La favorite. This recital, though,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2017
Rudolf Kempe (here caught in his second of four Bayreuth Ring years) is not a pusher nor a prodder nor...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2017
Pergolesi had weightier operatic ambitions than the buffet-sized buffo of La serva padrona. In 1734 he served up the elaborate...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2017
No, this is not Fedora. The Italian title masks the identity of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, whose passion for her...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2017
Michael Nyman’s 1986 opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is, like other minimalist stage works, a...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2017
For the near future Regula Mühlemann’s diary looks to be dominated by Bach and Mozart. The forthcoming concert performances of...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2017
Can the Orpheus and Eurydice legend be dramatised without lyricism? Nowadays, in this pluralistic era where no single aesthetic reigns,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2017
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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