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...
Although many jazz pianists unquestionably play classical music well, do their performances stack up to those of world-class, full-time classical...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2015
This useful anthology brings together three of Malcolm Arnold’s most powerfully distinctive and deeply personal works. All date from the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
Never judge a book by its cover. Mind you, the faux tattoos on Blandine Staskiewicz’s bare shoulders proclaiming ‘Tempesta –...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
In addition to her operatic and concert career – Mahler a particular speciality – Dagmar Pecková has created a number...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
That indefatigable one-man libretto factory Pietro Metastasio is the linking thread in these scenas of damsels in extremis, complemented in Ch’io...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
This disc’s title inevitably evokes the stop-at-nothing schemer of Handel’s satirical Venetian opera. But as Ann Hallenberg and her musicologist...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
Few short stories have become so quickly and so deeply embedded in the American consciousness as Annie Proulx’s 1997 Brokeback...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 07/2015
There can’t be many operas in which the heroine sings not a word. Auber’s La Muette de Portici has its...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
Max Emanuel Cencic and his production company Parnassus Arts follow up their trailblazing recording of Vinci’s Artaserse (Virgin Classics, 1/13)...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
As captured on this DVD, Nicola Luisotti is able to shape the fluency that Antonio Pappano’s orchestra and Renato Balsadonna’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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