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...
This is a reissue of a CD first published in 2002 with the title ‘Lamentatio’ and now given an intriguing...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2014
Any artistic endeavour related to the Holocaust is held to a different standard: the gulf between the artist’s intentions and...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2014
King’s College Choir has a distinguished recording history of Fauré’s evergreen Requiem, starting with David Willcocks’s much-loved 1967 LP. This...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2014
If you want to find out what has happened to English song since Britten, this is as good a place...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2014
A treasure map is needed to find one’s way through this release. The CDs and DVD, exquisitely encased in a...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 10/2014
The 19th volume in Ton Koopman’s ambitious project to record Buxtehude’s complete works is devoted to another cross-section of the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014
The Magelone Romances – an anthology rather than a true cycle – have never been a Brahmsian favourite. Ludwig Tieck’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2014
I welcomed Peter Rosen’s film of Nobuyuki Tsujii’s Carnegie Hall debut in the November 2012 issue. Here Rosen tells the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2014
‘Tickle the minikin’ is 16th-century slang for playing the highest string of a viol, like a pub pianist ‘tinkles the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2014
Jos Zwaanenburg is a Dutch flautist with a taste for electronics, improvisation and chance procedures, and each of the composers...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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