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...
Phaéton – normally styled Phaëton – was first performed at the new palace of Versailles in January 1683, transferring to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2014
The sheer orchestral seductiveness – or (according to taste) wearying-ness – of Korngold’s opera must be hard to match on...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2014
When Maria Callas sang Medea for the first time at Florence in 1953 (and continued with the role until the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2014
It’s Covent Garden, more than any other company in the world, that deserves the credit for restoring – or, rather,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2014
Benjamin Hochman’s Avie solo debut frames two fascinating and relatively unfamiliar contemporary Schubert tributes between two frequently recorded Schubert sonatas....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
Peter Dickinson must love his clavichord and its ability to bend pitches, because the music he writes and arranges for...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2014
Note to self: early contender for Gramophone instrumental record of the year. Why? The recorded piano sound is a real...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
Alexander Tharaud’s ‘Autographs’ are a series of musical signatures very much ‘as you like it’; a programme to suit all...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
It’s Mikhail Pletnev. So there is another view – wrought from an intensely personal response to phrasing and structure; and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014
Wading through the assemblage of quotations and oblique references which constitute the booklet-notes for this latest release in Joseph Nolan’s...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014
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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