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...
As Paul Griffiths suggests in his booklet-note, the sheer rhythmic quality of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s music makes it surprising he had...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014
This is a brilliantly planned and executed, musically illustrated biography of Marie Fel, one of the great 18th-century divas and...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2014
This is great. Hitherto Cinquecento – that marvellous male-voice sextet in Vienna who have sung a 16th-century Mass almost every...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2014
You’d think this same team’s own classic DG recording (12/94) would prove a dauntingly tough act to follow, let alone...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014
Andris Nelsons holds the sustained double low C that opens Also sprach Zarathustra with its full measure of menace and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
Hot on the heels of Manfred Honeck’s splendid collection of the same three key tone-poems of Richard Strauss (Reference Recordings,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 07/2014
Mark Wigglesworth has an excellent nose for this music. His cycle of the symphonies – split between Wales and the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2014
Lucky old Schumann. Proving a point I made some time ago – that Schumann is truly a musician’s composer –...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2014
Marking the centenary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik’s birth, these recordings, originally made by the BBC in 1987, offer a double...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2014
Kevin O’Connell (b1958) is a Northern Irish composer, resident since 1997 in Dublin. The three orchestral works gathered here date...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
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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