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...
Some 40 years before Mozart turned La clemenza di Tito into what he dubbed a ‘true opera’, Gluck set Metastasio’s...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2014
The Venetian Antonio Caldara worked at the Imperial court in Vienna from summer 1716 until his death 20 years later....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014
This is purgatory. At least that’s where Louis Andriessen’s 2008 ‘film opera’ La Commedia is set. Andriessen and his collaborator,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014
‘Two x Four’ is the snazzy title for a conceptual programme built around Bach’s Concerto for two violins and the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2014
Johan Georg Pisendel may not be a household name in our own time but in the 18th century he was...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: AW2014
If Mieczysaw Weinberg (or Moysey Vaynberg, as the Russians knew him) suffered neglect and humiliation during his lifetime, he could...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014
Tchaikovsky’s much-maligned Second Concerto is still a relative rarity so any new recording is an event, especially with a line-up...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014
Since refurbishing the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2011, Peter Oundjian has introduced nine new principals, so Sheherazade is as good...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2014
If recording activity is anything to go by, the music of Arne Nordheim (1931-2010) is not suffering the neglect of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014
An unequal collaboration, Bruno Weil only a presence, Lena Neudauer potentially a soloist of imagination and resource held back by...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni 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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