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...
As on the earlier Dutton disc of Godard’s music (11/11), none of these world premiere recordings are of forgotten masterpieces...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013
Checking the booklet timing, the Sixth Symphony’s first movement brought an instant smile to my face, assuming as I did...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2013
There are those who attend the opening of this piece as they might the opening of Parsifal – slowly, hieratically....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013
Kuhlau was not the luckiest man on earth. He lost an eye in childhood, had to escape over the border...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2013
So palpable is the excitement of these live performances that it almost comes as a shock that the applause has...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013
If Haydn spoke his last word on the symphony in 1795, Beethoven’s First five years later is no mere extension...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2013
It must have been a touch galling for Miklós Spányi, as he prepared to record these four works for Vol...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013
The brightness and rightness of the sound is what strikes you immediately about this new recording of four of Bach’s...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2013
There is much documentary evidence about Bach’s day-to-day dealings but not much of it biographical, no diaries and few reflections...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2013
Alexander Ghindin’s novel debut album (Ondine) consisted of Rachmaninov’s First and Fourth Concertos partnered by Ashkenazy and given in their...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison 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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