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...
There was a time, not so long ago, when Bruckner on disc was the province of ‘major’ orchestras and conductors....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2013
The emergence of the opening theme is certainly dream-like (that, we are told, is how Bruckner first heard it), the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2013
The LSO play Bloch’s Symphony in C sharp minor marvellously and Dalia Atlas conducts it with understanding and conviction. She...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/2013
Daniel Barenboim’s time at the BBC Proms this summer was entirely taken up with Wagner’s Ring but four years ago...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
Of all the composers of the experimental period in which he was writing, there were few who crystallised their musical...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 10/2013
Comparative listening doesn’t get much more fun than this. How right of the Duke to give equal billing to his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
He may have been overshadowed (at least south of the border) by younger contemporary James MacMillan, but William Sweeney (b1950)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013
Josep Soler is a Catalan composer and teacher. Born in 1935, he grew up at a time of maximum musical...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2013
Once you get over the initial surprise of hearing Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op 70, played on the viola instead...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
Ondine here continues its invaluable Saariaho survey, this time with string chamber works from 1987 to 2010. The earliest of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013
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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