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...
Richard Bonynge turned 90 last September, an anniversary marked by the release of this set of his complete ballet recordings...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2021
I warmly commended the Sirius Quartet’s previous album, ‘Playing on the Edge’ (11/19US), for their fine ensemble and innovative programming,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
While all of Louis Karchin’s music here is highly enjoyable and rewarding for both participants and listeners, the most memorable...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2021
Henry Dehlinger is a gifted and versatile musician. As a pianist of exceptional fluency, he has teamed with soprano Danielle...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 02/2021
I welcomed Navona Records’ ninth disc devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) last May, archival recordings of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
Victor Rosenbaum begins the first of Brahms’s Op 117 Intermezzos at a brisk pace, bringing cross-rhythmic lines to the fore....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2021
Between 1998 and 2010 Chandos issued, under its ‘Opera in English’ banner, a series of operatic recital discs featuring a...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021
A 12-note opera – for children? Well, yes, and rather good it is, too! Charles Wuorinen, who died in March...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2021
In 2008 the harpsichordist Ondřej Macek made a valiant attempt to reconstruct Vivaldi’s lost Argippo (Prague, 1730), itself a revision...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2021
‘It was really enough, more than enough. The entire performance was like an idolatrous orgy; everyone acted there as if...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2021
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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