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...
For Verdi it was King Lear, an opera that was never written, despite the composer’s obsession with the subject. And...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2014
The Venetian composer Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1709 91) worked in Munich and then retired to Padua – where he met...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
Haydn’s glorious celebration of the rural world in which he, a wheelwright’s son, grew up has done notably well on...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has proved himself one of today’s leading Haydn interpreters – amply so on five volumes of sonatas (and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014
Benjamin Grosvenor’s selection, simply entitled ‘Dances’, is lovingly planned rather than random. Ranging from Bach to Morton Gould, there are...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
‘Canticles from St Paul’s’ features five settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, with music from the service of Matins...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 09/2014
With French a cappella repertory already disappearingly small, that this disc limits its programme to music written for upper voices...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
This is the fourth double-CD of this ambitious project, of which each instalment explores the contents of one of a...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2014
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
The 1783 trip to Italy of the musician and writer JF Reichardt had far-reaching implications. He returned to his native...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 09/2014
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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