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 11-year-old Mozart had not long returned home from a three-year tour around Europe when he composed Part 1 of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013
Milton’s pair of poems characterising the polarised opposites of Mirth (‘L’Allegro’) and Melancholy (‘Il Penseroso’) were identified as a subject...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2013
Few complete cycles of Ravel’s piano music include La valse and La parade. Both feature in François Dumont’s two-disc set;...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10
When, if ever, have you heard the Chopin Etudes played as pure music, given as naturally as breathing yet recreated...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2013
On the title-page to this, the only one of his own publications designated specifically for the organ, Bach dedicates its...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2016
The Dowland Project, the experimental ensemble which re-examines the performing and improvising processes inherent in early music, left Dowland behind...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13
From the hyperactive nightingale in Pietro Torri’s opera Ismene at the start to her impatient sister as portrayed by Telemann...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW13
More than 40 years have passed since Wolfgang Sawallisch directed a well-nigh perfect realisation of this most original of Mass...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW13
Four years on from their award-winning recording of the Requiem (EMI, 10/09), Sir Antonio Pappano and his Roman forces have...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW13
If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And Denis Matsuev has certainly got ‘it’ – whatever that magic, unteachable ingredient is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW13
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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