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...
Duo526 were formed in 2011 by the Canadian violinist Kerry DuWors and Japanese pianist Futaba Niekawa while in Charles Castleman’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019
In 2017 the St Charles Singers, 31-strong and drawing on Chicago area professionals, toured England with a programme of music...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019
Sergio Cervetti (b1940) is an American composer but his origins lie in Uruguay. He was a pupil of Krenek, among...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2019
The Rochester Philharmonic’s excellent calling card features premiere recordings of Jennifer Higdon’s Harp Concerto, starring Yolanda Kondonassis, and Patrick Harlin’s...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2019
Offenbach’s music is wicked’, said George Bernard Shaw. ‘It is abandoned stuff; every accent is a snap of the fingers...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2019
Haydn symphony cycles on disc have had an uneasy history, one that has often been pregnant with expectation but littered...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2019
This is a follow-up to Dynamic’s recordings of Partenope (10/12) and Didone abbandonata (10/17). Siroe was staged at the Teatro...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019
There’s a nagging feeling here that the wrong Attila has made it to DVD. In December 2018 Riccardo Chailly conducted...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 08/2019
Salieri’s Les Danaïdes was such a success when it was staged at the Paris Opéra in April 1784 that the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019
Carlo Maria Giulini’s studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was made in 1959, the September sessions followed by a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2019
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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