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...
It is both in keeping with a sense of attention to historical detail, as well as something of a personal...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 12/2020
André Messager’s a bit of a rarity in the opera house these days. The work you’re most likely to encounter...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020
Hahn’s ‘Polynesian idyll’ was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in a double bill with Delibes’s Le roi l’a dit in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2020
August Enna (1859-1939) was raised on a Danish island by a shoemaker, a striking parallel with Hans Christian Andersen were...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2020
Sometimes dubbed ‘the French Telemann’, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was both admired and mocked for what a contemporary versifier ambiguously...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020
Between them, England’s cathedral choirs and Oxbridge choral foundations have an effective monopoly on polyphony with trebles on the top...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
‘Wit, spice and plenty of polish’ was Neil Fisher’s five-star assessment (The Times) of Fatma Said’s 2018 Wigmore Hall recital....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2020
Over 40 years the Vasari Singers and founder-conductor Jeremy Backhouse have built up an impressive reputation and catalogue, with recordings...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
‘Christmas in Puebla’ is to your traditional festive classical album as a spicy, aromatic glass of mulled wine is to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2020
Companion pieces are everything. How you frame a work can change how we hear it and how we listen –...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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