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 the first time Kenneth Leighton’s organ music has all been recorded by one player on one instrument. To...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW2014
The distinguished Norwegian organist Bjørn Boysen (b1943) has known these seminal works, written as teaching material for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW2014
Not premiered until 1917, Zemlinsky’s Eine florentinische Tragödie was something of a latecomer to the fin de siècle party. Based,...
Reviewed in issue AW2014
In January 2013 a brand-new concert hall was opened in Bordeaux, and the following September Paul Daniel took over as...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2014
So much of this new Bayreuth Flying Dutchman has such confidence and authority – singing, conducting, abstract video imagery –...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014
Perhaps more than ever, this Ariadne auf Naxos presents an operatic evening of two halves. Katharina Thoma’s production moves the...
Reviewed in issue AW2014
This is a vast improvement on the only other recording of Rachmaninov’s Monna Vanna, released by Chandos in 1992. A...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014
Vasco de Gama had a difficult birth. Meyerbeer began composing it in 1837, set it aside and returned to it...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014
Analekta puts the Italian aria texts (not including translations) online instead of in the booklet but does print long, irrelevant...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014
Poor Grétry. A native of Liège, he was a key figure in the development of opéra comique. In 2013 the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW2014
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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