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...
In a recent online round-up, I remarked that Obrecht’s discography is more remarkable for quantity than consistency, especially in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2013
Listening to Per Nørgård’s Libra, you wonder how a composer could write music that at once sounds so invitingly familiar...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013
Ireland’s church music has a modest restraint, compared with the output of Bairstow, Howells and Parry. But his significant contribution...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 01/2013
It is nice these days to have a chance to hear some of Purcell’s church anthems sung by a choir...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013
The usual suspects to pair with Fauré’s Requiem – Cantique de Jean Racine and Messe Basse – get more exposure...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2013
Here’s a supremely enjoyable Elgar survey centred around a clutch of works composed during the Great War, three of which...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2013
Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677-1726) was the younger brother of the celebrated opera composer Giovanni. Both studied in Bologna, relocated to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2013
A far cry from the sombre and disillusioned collaborations between the Thomaners and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in the post-war years,...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013
Piazzolla’s music, and tango nuevo itself, is a bit like marmite. I will confess to being a lover – in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013
Georg Wübbolt’s film celebrates the 100th anniversary of Solti’s birth on October 21, 1912. After the selection of pithy encomiums...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013
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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