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...
Hard on the heels of Claus Peter Flor’s exceptional New World with the Malaysian PO (BIS, 2/13) comes this scarcely...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
Lesson No 1: always read the small print. Beyond Marcus Bosch’s nicely proportioned account of the Seventh Symphony’s Allegro maestoso...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyn´ski (1807-67) was a contemporary of Chopin; both exhibited a precocious talent for the piano and were students...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
Listening to Chabrier’s Joyeuse marche of about 1888 you cannot help wondering whether it was from such a piece that...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
With the final wisps of tuning up and a glimpse of (for some reason) the score of the second flute...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
Edward Gardner’s operatic background is proving a major selling point for Chandos’s Britten series. Each new release comes as though...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2013
Havergal Brian’s First English Suite (1905-06, here receiving its first professional recording) was his first great public success, its six...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013
Those who might not count the Triple Concerto among Beethoven’s finest works could well be swayed by this intelligently balanced,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
The Channel Classics issue follows a disc of Bach solo concertos from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque issued in 2010....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013
The Stabat mater – a 13th-century poem that describes in 20 verses the imagined sufferings of the Virgin Mary at...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley 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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