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...
Jonas Kaufmann is nothing if not versatile. Just a few months ago I was reviewing his new recording of Otello...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2020
The figure of ‘La Folie’, announced here in an impulsive air from André Campra’s Les fêtes vénitiennes, was a perennial...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020
A former Oxford choral scholar – though he hardly sounds like one – Stuart Jackson has made his mark on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2020
Anniversary releases carry a certain pressure – a need to define, represent, embody. Do you gather up your greatest hits...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2020
Outi Tarkiainen is a composer of rare moral conviction and geographical attachment, with a longing for the far north that...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2020
John Sheppard’s monumental antiphon Media vita in morte sumus (‘In the midst of life we are in death’) is one...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2020
Rossini was 24 and recently arrived in Naples when, early in 1816, he was commissioned to provide the music for...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2020
His tercentenary and its aftermath have shown how there is so much more to Leopold Mozart than silly sound-effect symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2020
Bavarian-born Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini (1741-1816) settled in Paris and was promised a senior court post in 1788, just in time for...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
Following their Award-winning debut disc for Hyperion (1/19), Cupertinos turn their attention to Manuel Cardoso’s contemporary, Duarte Lobo, not to...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2020
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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