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...
Not one but two sets of Field nocturnes have come my way this month (Ewa Pobłocka’s period-instrument set is reviewed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016
Baroque guitarists Francesco Corbetta and his pupil Robert de Visée were masters of chiaroscuro, of nuance, suggestion and – unintentionally...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2016
Angela Hewitt leaves few stones unturned in projecting the linear specificity of Beethoven’s style. In Op 31 No 1’s first...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2016
Bookended by the great Prelude and Fugue in E flat, the third part of the Clavier Übung appeared in 1739...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2016
For those who enjoy the spectacle of breathtaking fingerwork and dazzling articulation, who marvel at impeccable accuracy at incredible speeds...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 08/2016
Following his 1980-83 studio cycle with the Dresden Staatskapelle (Eurodisc, currently on Sony), Marek Janowski’s Pentatone set with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 08/2016
‘This opera is a feast’ was Stendhal’s judgement on Il viaggio a Reims, though this sophisticated entertainment, written at the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016
You normally know what you’re getting from a Woody Allen production when the black screen with the white credits pops...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2016
This is such an enjoyable production of Mozart’s Turkish opera that it seems churlish to draw attention to its defects....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2016
Meyerbeer needs his operatic champions. Robert le diable was poorly served by Laurent Pelly’s 2012 production at Covent Garden, but...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016
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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