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...
Thierry Félix’s Debussy recital was recorded in 1995 but seems largely to have been overlooked on its first release a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
The key may be B flat minor but the debt of Bruckner’s opening gambit to the D minor of Mozart’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2018
Jaime Martín turns to the shorter choral works for the second instalment of his Brahms survey, launched last year with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
For the latest in Hyperion’s Brahms series, Benjamin Appl is reunited with Graham Johnson, restoring a combination that proved so...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018
Grete Pedersen and the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir have been well received in these pages over the past decade for recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2018
The mystical ideal of waiting to perform late, great art until well into pensionable age may apply to pianists and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2018
What is the purpose of a disc of arias from operas the singer has never performed? An audition tape? Trying...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018
I would like to have seen on DVD the Dutch company’s 50th-anniversary production of no fewer than four performances from...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2018
Ricciardo e Zoraide was written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1818, midway through Rossini’s seven-year residency in...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2018
Puccini’s wartime attempt to emulate the success of Lehár has always been the dark sheep of his output. But La...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018
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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