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...
Here’s the recording premiere of a new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and it’s given in two...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019
El sombrero de tres picos was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at London’s Alhambra Theatre in the summer of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019
The Gabrieli Consort & Players have been developing ideas about King Arthur (or The British Worthy) for nearly a quarter...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019
Katherine Jolly is a rather good operatic and recital soprano, teacher – variously at St Louis and Indiana Universities and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
Paul Reale (b1943 in New Jersey) studied at Columbia in the 1960s with Chou Wen chung (with whom he had...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
In each of Jessica Meyer’s differently configured works from the last five years, knife-edge anticipation opens on to unexpected, often...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
In 2016 at Hunter College, New York, the Center for Contemporary Opera staged the world premiere of Jane Eyre, in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
Reviews of Weber’s follow-up to Der Freischütz tend to begin with the listener, enchanted all over again by the score’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019
Albums devoted to the bass voice aren’t all that common, fewer yet a bass recital devoted to one composer. The...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019
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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