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...
For Oliver Messiaen, Albéniz was ‘parmi les étoiles’, and it is easy to see the attraction of music blazing with...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2016
Boris Giltburg, the Russian-born Israeli pianist who won the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition, is that genuine rarity: a pianist whose...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2016
Proclaimed the ‘Voice of Hope’ in her debut album for Decca (A/14), the South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza carried more...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 06/2016
As an LP (Vox or Urania), Kempe’s early recording of Wagner’s comedy was the first to be internationally circulated. A...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2016
Hot on the heels of Sony’s Cav & Pag starring Jonas Kaufmann, here comes a another outstanding release featuring the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2016
‘We’re about to weigh anchor with one of the best-loved comic operas ever,’ announces Tim Brooke-Taylor immediately after the overture...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2016
Plácido Domingo sang the title-role in the US premiere of Alberto Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo with the New York City Opera...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2016
I was in the audience the night John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 06/2016
In the 1770s the gloomy, mist-shrouded musings of the Gaelic bard ‘Ossian’ – later revealed as the century’s greatest literary...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2016
Before and after the turn of the 17th century, hundreds of collections of Airs sérieux et à boire were published...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2016
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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