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...
Anyone who watched Jamie Barton sail serenely to victory at 2013’s Cardiff Singer of the World competition will know what...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2017
The Swiss tenor Mauro Peter has the kind of Dichterliebe voice I hear in my mind’s ear: fresh, youthful, evenly...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2017
I’ve enjoyed this enormously. The recordings – all live at the Zurich Tonhalle, with applause – are issued for the...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 02/2017
It’s not often that you can say that a commission, or set of commissions, fills a genuine hole in the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017
In 1968 Alfred Brendel shrewdly observed of Liszt’s Rhapsodies, ‘these are the pieces we perhaps have the most to make...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2017
Despite the appeal and popularity of Bloch’s Schelomo, his three solo cello suites have not been widely recorded. They were...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2017
Christopher Simpson’s The Four Seasons is an unusual thing. Each season lasts about 15-20 minutes and consists of a Fancy...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2017
Here we have a follow-up to the Doric’s acclaimed 2012 disc pairing the Rosamunde and Death and the Maiden, this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2017
Victoria, Monteverdi, Carter, Boulez and a great deal in between: Pablo Heras-Casado is one of those conductors, not common in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2017
These eight composers represent six Latin American nations, yet there are ties that draw their disparate voices together. The most...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2017
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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