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...
Numerous recordings of Beethoven’s complete sonatas for piano and violin are available in performances from the first half of the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 01/2021
It’s probably fair to say that Weinberg isn’t best known for his comic gifts. Yet dozens of his film scores...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2021
Previous issues in The Stradella Project, of which this is the sixth, have all been praised in these pages. Il...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021
At first glance the title ‘Friends and Rivals’ seems to allude to the two tenors, Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2021
The extravagant production of L’empio punito (1669) in the Palazzo Colonna was attended by 26 cardinals, numerous princes and ambassadors,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2021
In Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades the old Countess, recalling her life as a beautiful young woman in Paris,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2021
It’s certainly not every day, week or year that musical archaeology turns up a complete unperformed work from a composer...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2021
Never one to rest on his laurels, Philippe Jaroussky has come up with a typically enterprising selection of Italian Baroque...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021
This album showcases, poignantly at this time of escalating political tension in the eastern Mediterranean, the multicultural riches of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2021
This is a super gift for somebody who loves – or is even curious about – the European Middle Ages....
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 01/2021
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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