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...
I find it a little odd that Rolando Villazón brings so much of the opera house with him to this...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2020
Episodic ballads were hardly natural territory for Schumann, supreme master of the lyric epigram. Songs like ‘Belsatzar’ and the sprawling,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
As the trend for recompleting Mozart’s Requiem approaches its semicentenary, two new versions appear, each tackling the revered fragment in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
The story from the Apocrypha of the Israelite widow Judith’s murder of the Assyrian king Holofernes – repulsive or uplifting,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
For her first solo album for Harmonia Mundi, German soprano Christiane Karg turns to Mahler, joined at the piano by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2020
This ends a hugely enjoyable project begun in 1986, not originally envisaged as a complete cycle of Josquin’s Masses but...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 11/2020
Haydn’s joyous celebration of an idyllic, prelapsarian world seems particularly poignant in an age when our guardianship of the planet...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
The Solemnal Mass of Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) appears to have been composed for the name day in 1811 of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2020
Hit play on this new recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and you’ll get a shock. Benjamin Britten may...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2020
‘Springing like Minerva fully armed from the head of Jove’ was Robert Schumann’s euphoric verdict when the 20-year-old Brahms visited...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2020
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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