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...
This is a disc to lift the spirits. Whether the music is sultry, strenuous or sunny, Javier Perianes plays with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012
For my money, there is every good reason for Debussy’s Fantaisie for piano and orchestra to establish more of a...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2012
Unlike a certain Italian maestro’s Beethoven symphony cycle (Decca, A/11), this new set of concertos has appeared with relatively little...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2012
It’s hard to imagine an eminent Baroque ensemble more temperamentally suited to the esprit of Bach’s four orchestral essays than...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2012
On December 7, 1960, a repetiteur-turned-conductor who had only recently started to use the family name gave his first high-profile...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:
The vast majority of Christmas carol CDs spend most of their playing careers providing seasonal atmosphere. Critical listening is not...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 12/2012
Built upon the individual verses of the Lord’s Prayer and beginning and ending in plainchant, this enterprising collection by the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
This project takes as its basis a Roman Easter procession in and around the Piazza Navona from the church of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2012
This seems to be the first CD devoted entirely to the glorious repertory of English carols from the early 15th...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2012
Anna Caterina Antonacci’s Cassandra in the recent Covent Garden Troyens was a performance whose appalling emotional truth I have rarely...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012
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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