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 documentary by the great Tony Palmer was first shown in 1988 on ITV’s South Bank Show. Its questioning title...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) is one of those transitional composers straddling the Classical and Romantic eras overshadowed by the greater...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014
Heinz Holliger brings an infallible ear for timbre to bear on this programme of Debussy, notably, but by no means...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014
New performances of Anton Bruckner’s ‘Study Symphony’ in F minor hardly grow on trees but this latest instalment of Simone...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: AW2014
It’s not before time that these sparkling performances of the symphonic extracts from Havergal Brian’s surreal, anti-war comic opera The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014
The undulating semiquavers on basses and cellos that open Harold en Italie sound rather workaday, certainly in comparison with Sir...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
It’s an attractive idea to programme companion pieces for Berio’s violin Sequenza and its Chemins-like reworking, Corale. Huang Ruo’s two...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW2014
The Overture is regularly played, the rest largely forgotten. But this beginning might impel you to listen to the lot....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW2014
A neat idea this from David Bates and his ensemble La Nuova Musica. Two of Charpentier’s short Latin biblical oratorios...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2014
First prize-winner of the prestigious Montreal International Musical Competition in 2012, Philippe Sly possesses a fine, velvet bass-baritone voice, clear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble 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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