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...
Anthony Lewis edited The Fairy Queen for the Purcell Society and conducted its first complete recording (L’Oiseau-Lyre, 1957). This long-overdue...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017
This production, filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in February 2017, is a natural extension of Les Arts Florissants’ five-year madrigals...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2017
You’d be forgiven for assuming that this release, featuring a French coloratura soprano in repertoire that includes the Hamlet Mad...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
It’s not often worth devoting many words of a CD review to the contents of the CD’s booklet. However, what...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017
Regarding Granados and Goyescas, José Menor is as much a scholar as a pianist. In his booklet notes to this...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
A lot of thought has gone into this lovely album of orchestrated Schubert songs, as conductor Laurence Equilbey makes clear in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
This has to be one of the most exciting and engaging releases of medieval song in recent years. The Sollazzo...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 12/2017
Marianne Crebassa’s French song album surveys the fin de siècle mélodie from Duparc to late Fauré, placing the emphasis on...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
Michel Bettez has been principal bassoon for more than 30 years of Montreal’s beloved Orchestre Métropolitain, currently under the artistic direction...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017
Commissioned by the Boston-based experimental opera company Guerilla Opera and premiered in 2011, Nicholas Vines’s highly resourceful pocket opera (four...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2017
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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