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...
Anne-Marie McDermott’s second release for Bridge devoted to Haydn further testifies to her masterful affinity for the composer’s style, as...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
A cursory glance at the titles of these string quartets – all part of larger compositional series – might suggest...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018
The ideal way to take in the wonders of the Berlioz Requiem is to attend a performance in a concert...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2018
Everything That Rises (2017) is John Luther Adams’s fourth string quartet, following close on the heels of untouched (2015). In...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018
Filippo Mineccia’s new recital takes as its starting point the circumstances surrounding the death, on May 29, 1697, of the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
The third instalment of the Hallé’s slowly assembling Ring cycle – this episode from a concert and rehearsals in November...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2018
Un giorno di regno was Verdi’s only opera buffa, an early work composed in 1840 and a far cry from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2018
This historic first recording of Ethel Smyth’s masterpiece The Wreckers derives from a meticulously prepared 1994 Henry Wood Promenade Concert,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018
Much as the victim of a street mugging might ask ‘Why me?’, so one’s tempted to ask ‘Why Mosè in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018
Giulio Ricordi will always be remembered as the tenacious publisher who engineered Verdi’s collaboration with Boito and later championed Puccini,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2018
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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