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...
Time was when it was all but impossible to get musicians to concede that there might be other orchestras worthy...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2021
Despite the eminence of the coupling of the Bartók Solo Sonata, the two Martinů concertos are the main event on...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2021
This is a deceptively straightforward disc, intended primarily as the debut recording of this husband-and-wife duo. It even opens with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
This splendid and authoritative recital by Elissa Edwards and Richard Kolb of arias and cantatas from Barbara Strozzi’s last published...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2020
Shuying Li (b1989) is a Chinese-born, American-resident composer. She studied initially at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music but won a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
Though conceived and created well before the pandemic, Osvaldo Golijov’s latest collaboration with Silkroad Ensemble seems uncannily well suited to...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 12/2020
Patrick Kilbey’s Contemporary Composers profile (2/18) of John Luther Adams (b1953) remains the best general introduction to the music of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2020
Much uncertainty surrounds the origins of Rameau’s last opera. It used to be thought that it was withdrawn when the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2020
When reviewing Marek Janowski’s Dresden Philharmonic Cavalleria rusticana (8/20), Hugo Shirley noted that the conductor ‘hardly gets down and dirty...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020
Opera about opera is a dangerous business when the art form needs to emphasise its relevance and broaden its reach,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2020
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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