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...
I can’t imagine Morton Feldman, cantankerous curmudgeon that he was, would have been thrilled at the prospect of having his...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2016
Pascal Amoyel, the enigmatic French pianist whose explorations of Chopin include a set of Nocturnes (Calliope, 2004) and last year’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016
From the disc’s title we must assume that this is Imogen Cooper’s idiosyncratic (perhaps contentious?) take on a composer with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
I first became aware of Pascal Dubreuil through his recording of Bach’s English Suites, which Lindsay Kemp praised with reservations...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016
‘A singer of great excellence. His voice was sound, male, powerful and extensive. His tones were natural and he had...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016
It’s not quite true that this is the ‘World Premiere Recording’ of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s über-verismo hit of 1911, as Naxos’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
Plácido Domingo could put it no better than Francesco Foscari, the decrepit and embittered Doge. ‘So this is the vile...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2016
Orfeo here rounds up once more a production’s cast long known to collectors in both sound (numerous dealer labels) and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016
The serenata La gloria di Primavera (1716) was commissioned by the Neapolitan Duke Nicola Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona for his wife...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016
One ring to rule them all: a giant metallic ring dominates the set of this new production of Faust from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016
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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