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...
To make Beethoven’s Fifth sound fresh seems a Herculean task, yet that’s what Teodor Currentzis accomplishes here in a relentlessly...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020
To embark on a second recording of the St Matthew Passion 20 or so years after an admired reading with...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2020
There have been many fine recordings of Brahms’s Opp 117 and 118 in recent years: Barry Douglas and Jonathan Plowright...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020
The composer’s booklet note (written in spring last year) here opens in melancholic mood, with the news that he had,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020
Whether or not this release’s ‘Vol 1’ designation signifies the start of a Mozart piano concerto cycle, it nevertheless showcases...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
These releases’ provocative titles suggest that Juliana Soltis and Mike Block are about to knock Bach’s Cello Suites off their...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2020
Street Scene appeared on Broadway in 1947 and never returned to the Great White Way. But if it was not...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 03/2020
German opera still seems slower following up its newcomers than its Italian counterpart (unless we’re talking Jonas Kaufmann). This show...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2020
‘Is there such a thing as a “Verdian Soprano”?’ asks the booklet to this debut release from Olga Mykytenko. Everyone...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2020
There’s no denying the star attraction of Philipp Stölzl’s new Rigoletto for the Bregenz Festival: his €8 million set. Of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2020
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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