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...
It is the unenviable fate of any composer who was active in the 1770s to be compared to Mozart. In...
Reviewed by Lindsay-Kemp in issue: 07/2013
Even a decade ago a truly modern production of a British opera by a Brit team and with many Brits...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
The impossible masterpieces of the 19th century supposedly have no challenges that can’t be solved by a hard look at...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2013
It is heartening that the King’s Singers should devote themselves to a work as comparatively obscure as Jean Richafort’s Requiem....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 07/2013
The distinctive voice of Anna Leese – a gleaming soprano, like a pure beam of light – has become a...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2013
A concerto for choir by any other name, Richard Strauss’s Deutsche Motette has a good claim to being the hardest...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2013
You probably need to care deeply about Simone Weil in advance in order to get the most from Kaija Saariaho’s...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2013
The two decades since the fall of the Soviet Union have not been propitious for Russian music but Alexander Raskatov...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2013
Roger Quilter (1877-1953) was the ailing son whose brothers in a large and prosperous family all had careers either in...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013
Poulenc performance practice, at least in this recording, has evolved well beyond the dry but clear sonorities heard in many...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2013
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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