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...
The title of this new disc of chamber music by Mark Abel comes from a song-cycle set to texts by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2020
For those unfamiliar with Sybarite5, they are a cutting-edge string quintet comprising the traditional quartet line-up plus double bass. Based...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus stand out for many reasons, among them a mellifluous approach to ensemble-singing that benefits everything...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2020
Sandbox Percussion, an ensemble based in New York, have been expanding the repertoire for their vast array of instruments since...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2020
Meredith Monk’s Memory Game (2016-17) can be viewed as one single composition (not unlike a 1980s concept album), a pair...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
Has there ever been a composer who, with a simple song (or set of them), communicated the sheer joy of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
The full-orchestral version of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, premiered in a chamber version at the Houston Grand Opera in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2020
Isabel Bayrakdarian’s superb recital with Tafelmusik (CBC, 7/05) presented key moments for the famous Egyptian Cleopatra by Handel, Mattheson, Hasse...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020
With Janowski’s new recording of this opera (Pentatone, 2/20) and the Vienna Euryanthe on both CD and DVD (Capriccio, 11/19;...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2020
Two years after the DVD/Blu-ray release of Jonas Kaufmann’s first Otello in the theatre (A/18), here is a full studio...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020
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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