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...
In 18th-century Venice, two sweethearts plot their revenge on the miserly Doctor who has swindled them – first by pretending...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2021
When I interviewed Roger Parker for an article on Opera Rara in the July 2018 Gramophone he spoke enthusiastically of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2021
The difference in title is nominal, circumstantial and a little misleading: both of these versions of Beethoven’s only opera are...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2021
Seventeenth-century English composers knew a thing or two about epidemics, restrictions, conflicts and the surge of cultural release that comes...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
At the start of the global pandemic, a lot of people went into lockdown with family, many escaping the big...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2021
A regular in the West End, thanks to appearances at ENO and the Royal Opera, and often heard on Hollywood...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 02/2021
This is a delightful and quirky programme (something to be expected of Paul Hillier, of course), mixing contemporary music with...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 02/2021
To commemorate the quincentenary of Josquin’s death, Stile Antico opt for a relatively safe but generous programme: his most frequently...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2021
Having some years ago given us a pair of Masses from Mozart’s Salzburg years (4/13), the choir of St Albans...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2021
It isn’t obvious what ‘Handel’s Tea Time’ means, nor if it is a northerner’s main meal or a southerner’s four...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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