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...
Juris Karlsons is one of Latvia’s most distinguished composers, with an extensive output and having occupied some of the highest...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2020
Forget the glamour of Hollywood’s Rat Pack, the 16th century had a Wolf Pack of musicians whose names derive from...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2020
Richard Harvey’s album ‘Kyrie’ (2017) saw the film composer rework and rearrange several themes and cues into a choral context....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2020
Kate Lindsey’s second solo album, like her first (9/17), takes her away from the classic lyric repertoire with which she...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2020
Peter Eötvös’s Halleluja (2015) is styled ‘oratorium balbulum’ – a stammering oratorio – and subtitled ‘Four Fragments’. The latter does...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2020
It’s nearly 30 years now since John Warrack, in these pages, hailed the sudden rediscovery of a copy of this...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2020
The ghost of Richard Strauss’s Klytemnestra in Elektra hovers over the final work on the soprano Ruby Hughes’s new BIS...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2020
On their much-anticipated debut recording, Solomon’s Knot offer, in chronological order, works from three successive Thomaskantors: Johann Schelle (1648-1701), Johann...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2020
Alexandre Tharaud loves a themed disc and ‘Versailles’ is a typically personal exploration of the glories of the French Baroque...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2020
Here is a programme that would rarely (never?) be presented in the concert hall, one specifically tailored to the medium...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020
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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