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...
Triumphantly premiered in Paris in 1779, Iphigénie en Tauride is Gluck’s supreme masterpiece and the culmination of his efforts to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2016
Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse, to a libretto by the prolific Charles-Simon Favart, was staged at the Paris Opera in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2016
This recital devoted to Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729) offers an indispensable chance to broaden our appreciation of Italian opera in early...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2016
We have Pablo Casals most to thank for the cello’s renaissance as a solo instrument in the first half of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2016
Bruno Monsaingeon’s reputation precedes him. With films such as The Enigma and Unquiet Traveller he has revealed much about artists...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2016
Richard Pinel’s recital celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Harrison & Harrison organ in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. It also...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
In 2007 pianist and new music champion Anthony de Mare launched the Liasons Project, for which a wide stylistic and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2016
Widor’s 10 organ symphonies have been served well recently. There are splendid complete sets from Joseph Nolan (Signum; five discs,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2016
Anyone who listened to Vaughan Jones’s 2014 release, ‘The Hidden Violin’ (7/14), will know that repertoire rarities don’t always produce...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2016
This is Angela Hewitt’s first foray into Scarlatti on disc but she hopes there will be more. Sixteen down…539 to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2016
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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