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...
The real hero of this somewhat disappointing account of Mahler’s valedictory ‘symphony with voices’ is the Tonhalle Orchestra. In spacious,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2014
The fact that Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934) studied with Massenet and had ripe operatic instincts is something that can scarcely...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
The opening chorus of any St John Passion will tell you much about the rest of the performance and here...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
The outsider art of Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), the Swiss-German autodidact who spent his entire adult life in an asylum, has...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
The Other Mary is Mary Magdalene. We may know her as the (supposedly) reformed prostitute who washed Jesus’s feet with...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014
This disc may sound suspiciously like a gimmick by which to group together some hard-to-place niche repertoire but Christophe Pantillon’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2014
Back in 1976, Helmut Lachenmann composed his Accanto – a typically subversive and uncompromising critique of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014
This lovingly chosen recital – striking in both choice and performance – celebrates dance and song, key aspects of music...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
Leon McCawley launches his all Schumann disc in high spirits with Faschingsschwank aus Wien. It’s the faster movements that come...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014
Oh dear. Listening to the opening of the C minor Impromptu, you do wish that Rudolf Buchbinder would leave it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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