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...
I was much looking forward to getting my hands on this CD, having chosen Steven Osborne’s previous Beethoven sonata disc,...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2019
In his booklet note Andrew Matthews-Owen explains the long gestation of this programme. But you can already get a sense...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019
This is a paradoxical disc in some ways. Given Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s track record in her native French repertory, most people,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
For his previous solo albums, Stéphane Degout has always confined himself to the French repertory, of which he remains a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
If, like me, you enjoyed the eclectic and beautifully poised Christmas disc ‘Once as I Remember …’ from John Eliot...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2019
I am finishing this review precisely on what would have been John Tavener’s 75th birthday. Such an anniversary causes one...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2019
Anna Lucia Richter’s singing of the bittersweet ‘An den Mond’ – gentle, inward, the ornaments gracefully etched – immediately reveals...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2019
If I had to choose a ‘glass-half-full’ contemporary composer, then Roxanna Panufnik would be near the top of my list....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2019
This deeply touching disc gathers together four sets of Martinů’s songs, both early and late. Two thirds of it is...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
For all his industry and popular success in the oratorio genre, Carl Loewe is almost exclusively associated outside Germany with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019
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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