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...
Kile Smith describes his The Arc in the Sky as a ‘65-minute pilgrimage for unaccompanied choir’, and, he might have...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019
Narrators, like humour, are notoriously difficult to integrate into musical works. For every successful endeavour – Schoenberg rather had the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019
This is so delicious that it’s tempting simply to suggest that you go and buy it. But of course I’ll...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2019
This is not an obvious concerto coupling; but in fact there are at least three others, two of them quite...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019
A Mahler Fourth as insightful and as individual as we have come to expect from this source. How rarely we...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019
Once in a while a piano recording comes along that really plucks at the heart-strings. Denis Kozhukhin’s compilation of miniatures...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019
This is not the first time Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni, the star sopranos Handel engaged for his London operas...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2019
When Achille De Bassini created the role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s I due Foscari in 1844, he was in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2019
The great Italian baritone Leo Nucci is one of music’s indestructibles. How else can one explain a 76-year-old holding spellbound...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2019
This production from last year’s Salzburg Festival has much charm but it is fundamentally so wrong-headed that I hardly know...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2019
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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