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...
For the ninth volume of his Brahms series, Graham Johnson is joined by Robin Tritschler – the third tenor to...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020
This is the fourth Gielen-directed Missa solemnis to appear on record; not the most recent – a Capriccio release of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2020
The death of Stephen Cleobury last November, seven months after he had ended his 37 years as Music Director of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2020
It seems short-sighted for an emerging piano talent such as Lindsay Garritson to bring out a new CD without including...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
The subject of Paul Moravec’s oratorio Sanctuary Road is William Still (1821-1902), one of the main activists running the Underground...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2020
There’s no need to pigeonhole Daniel Lentz’s compositional aesthetic. He has traversed an array of styles throughout his productive career,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 04/2020
During December 1914 and January 1915 Max Reger transcribed five Brahms symphonic slow movements for solo piano, which he deemed...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2020
On this two-disc set of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, Tomás Cotik’s deeply analytical playing adds to an exhilarating display...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 04/2020
Already the winner of multiple prizes, as well as a member of Oper Stuttgart’s ensemble, the 26-year-old Czech tenor Petr...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2020
The conductor György Vashegyi and the soprano Chantal Santon-Jeffery are no strangers to Rameau. They appear together on Naïs (Glossa,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2020
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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