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...
Premiered in 1927, Copland’s Piano Concerto was described by one critic as ‘a jazz dance hall next to a poultry...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
The mother-and-daughter partnership of Zina Schiff and Avlana Eisenberg shows an evident unity of purpose in both concertos. In the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2013
There are few musicians who appear more steeped in their worlds than Sigiswald Kuijken and one senses that Bach’s pure...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013
For some, a disc of Bach’s Violin Concertos is incomplete without the ubiquitous ‘Double’ in D minor – and on...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013
For Marek Janowski, coming up now to complete his second recorded Ring cycle, vocal colour – rather than strength or...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2013
Here is one of the great Verdi conductors of our time, who is now doing some of the best work...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
The production by Covent Garden’s director of opera sees the story in flashback, beginning with Onegin and Tatyana’s final meeting....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2013
The background to this unfamiliar work is confusing: let’s get it out of the way as concisely as possible. When...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013
After suffering the ghastly production of Don Giovanni by Dmitri Tcherniakov (A/13), it’s a relief to be able to welcome...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013
Though still on the margins of the opera repertoire, Königskinder has well-placed friends in the opera and recording world who...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
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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