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...
If you play the first variation of the Goldbergs on strings it resembles the opening of the Third Brandenburg. Or...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
How gratifying that Jiří Bělohlávek was able to re record Suk’s Asrael in his second tenure at the helm of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2019
These miraculous works from the Lenten season of 1785 may be the two Mozart concertos most commonly paired on disc....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019
This is superb. Here is a generous selection of sacred pieces by Charpentier, impeccably performed by Ensemble Correspondances under Sébastien...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2019
This double album serves as a natural follow-up to a selection of scenes by Beethoven, Strauss and Wagner, recorded live...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019
This new Siegfried completes Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Ring, nine years in the making from concerts in Manchester and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2019
The ordering of the names might give a clue: like Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nicola Vaccaj’s Giulietta e...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2019
Spontini, the favourite of Napoleon and Josephine, had his greatest successes with La vestale and Fernand Cortez, staged at the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2019
Pinchgut Opera’s 2017 staged production has several singers doubling up in multiple roles, which is likely the same sort of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2019
You can’t have Viennese operetta without gold braid, frogging and moustachioed cavalry officers, and Kálmán’s ‘military operetta’ Ein Herbstmanöver is...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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