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...
So is this the last Romantic piano concerto? It might well be; but the work’s precursor In Seven Days –...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020
Górecki’s series of string quartets, written over a relatively short span of time (the first dates from 1988) are absolutely...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2020
Chinary Ung (b1942) is a Cambodian-born, California-resident composer whose music has been featured on more than 20 recordings from mostly...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020
This splendid recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra of four richly romantic works written by Barbara Harbach in 2017 shows...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2020
When it comes to contemporary late 20th-/early 21st-century piano repertoire, Aleck Karis has few peers. He plays Elliott Carter’s Night...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2020
This ninth disc from Navona devoted to the music of Michael G Cunningham (b1937) concentrates on instrumental and chamber pieces...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2020
It’s wise to leave preconceptions at the door while listening to this captivating programme of Brahms clarinet works. The musicians...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2020
This new Traviata, the first studio recording for some 25 years not to be based round a specific staging, I...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020
This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’s first foray into the media market,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020
A touch of Hispanic sunshine always suited Offenbach, and having already produced a fine new recording of the South American-set...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2020
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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