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...
Knowing Sebastian Bohren’s playing from his gripping recording of Hartmann’s Concerto funebre (6/17) and as leader of the superb Stradivari...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
Schoenberg gives the first melodic phrase of Brahms’s G minor Piano Quartet to three clarinets (the common instrument in B...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 26) was 13 when he composed the opera Los esclavos felices. Only the overture survives,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
Thomas Adès has composed his first film score, for Colette, a biopic based on the Claudine novels by the French...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2019
In 1671 Lully assembled a Ballet des ballets, a pasticcio made up of excerpts from his own works. Here Benoît...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019
Xavier Sabata has taken Alexander the Great as the subject of his latest recital, a carefully programmed and finely executed...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2019
Three quotes head the booklet note for this Melodiya recording of The Queen of Spades – by Alexander Pushkin, Pyotr...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2019
Unsurprisingly, the man who scored The Godfather knew how to get hearts racing in the opera house. Nino Rota’s best-known...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019
Many people know the Donkey duet (‘Trot here and there’) from Véronique, an opéra comique staged at the Bouffes-Parisiens in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2019
The Roman Paolo Lorenzani (1640-1713) was the only Italian musician other than Lully to hold a court post during the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2019
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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