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...
After many years of being the least appreciated and performed of Bruckner’s mature symphonies, the Sixth seems to have finally...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2019
For what it’s worth, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen can boast as strong a claim as any other modern ensemble to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019
As each instalment of John Wilson’s recorded tribute to his friend and mentor Richard Rodney Bennett is revealed, the realisation...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2019
This has been, to date, a most distinguished Beethoven cycle, with keen-eared music-making, vividly and unobtrusively conducted, winning golden opinions...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2019
This new LSO Live disc brings together two of Bernard Haitink’s previously released recordings, presumably in honour of the conductor’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019
There’s a neat concept behind Olga Peretyatko’s new disc: putting familiar Mozart arias in context by programming them alongside his...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2019
Recorded at last year’s Heidenheim Festival, this audio-only version of Verdi’s fourth opera comes hard on the heels of Michele...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
Richard Thompson’s chamber opera The Mask in the Mirror (2012) tells the story of the relationship between Paul Laurence Dunbar...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2019
One could be forgiven for not being familiar with Othmar Schoeck’s 1943 opera Das Schloss Dürande, with a libretto loosely...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019
The first notes to sound in the Grosses Festspielhaus are gunshots and police sirens, a subterranean shootout in which a...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger 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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