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...
More than the other Mahler symphonies, No 7 lends itself to many diverse viewpoints, whether as a cram-packed dreamworld (Sinopoli,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2014
In the latter part of the 18th century the viola, previously neglected as a solo instrument, began to appear occasionally...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014
Naxos trumpets this new recording (actually set down in 2011) of the complete score for Hindemith’s ballet Nobilissima Visione (1938)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2014
Christopher Gunning (b1944) can number Alan Bush, Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett among his mentors. Since 2002 he has...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2014
These modern Polish composers may not have songs in their hearts – at least ones of their own – but...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2014
Karol Szymanowski is the obvious point of stylistic reference at the start of Isis except that where Szymanowski would soon...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2014
Here are Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra, making comparison a marginal issue. Yet I have to say that...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014
A recent live performance of Bruckner’s longer and more wayward original version of the Eighth Symphony (1887, ed Nowak) has...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2014
Bruch’s Second Concerto is a strong work of considerable originality; it might well have become more popular but for the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2014
It was with the works in his ‘Jewish cycle’ that Bloch established his creative personality after an apprenticeship gleaning what...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2014
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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