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...
The Spanish composer, conductor and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) was hugely prolific throughout his long life, writing in a...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2015
‘Deplorably corrupt’ is how Tchaikovsky’s biographer, David Brown, describes the draconian alterations made to the Rococo Variations by the work’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2015
Just in case anyone else felt minded to replicate this Rite of Spring project, the packaging prints an admonitory sentence:...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2015
Take a fine orchestra, an effective ‘shoebox’ acoustic (in this case the Herkulessaal in Munich), an expert team of engineers...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015
Especially in the first half of his career, Valentin Silvestrov was fond of calling all manner of music ‘symphony’. In...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2015
Since its first performance in 1981, Schnittke’s Third Symphony has attracted much attention as well as two recordings, conducted by...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015
Jean Martinon’s recordings of all five Saint-Saëns symphonies with the Orchestre National de l’ORTF remain a benchmark, having survived in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2015
There are now at least 20 orchestrations of Mussorgsky’s Pictures, a good half of which have been recorded, but Ravel’s...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2015
Having previously heard Vilde Frang playing Romantic and 20th-century music, I was delighted to discover that the vitality and sense...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015
Chances are that Piotr Moss is the most notable living French composer born in Poland. Now in his mid-sixties, he...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2015
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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