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...
Over the course of five days on Seattle’s Mercer Island, where the noted billionaire Paul Allen lives, former California EAR...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 03/2017
Although Brahms’s Op 118 Piano Pieces hardly lack for world-class recordings, Robert Henry’s generous and big-boned yet lyrically informed pianism...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2017
If your name is Aida, then soprano is a pretty savvy career path. Indeed, Decca is marketing Kazan-born Aida Garifullina...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
The folk figure of Rübezahl – a kind of magic factotum, largely pro the good and anti the bad –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2017
Those with long memories may recall another disc of Rossini arias which started with ‘Cruda sorte!’ from L’italiana in Algeri....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2017
In its heyday, Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince ruled Broadway. Its original run lasted 608 performances and during the 1920s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
From a conceptual and presentational point of view this is all rather a muddle, but at bottom is a very...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017
The young Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson certainly has credentials as a lyric soprano, with a series of appearances at high-profile...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2017
György Vashegyi and his excellent Hungarian choir and orchestra follow up their two-disc set of grands motets by Mondonville (7/16)...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2017
Released to coincide with the bicentenary of Méhul’s death, which falls this year, Christophe Rousset’s splendid recording of Uthal was...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2017
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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