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...
Nathalie Stutzmann’s credentials as a Bach singer are well established, as genuine and unmistakable a contralto voice as we’ve heard...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013
Works assembled for one-off occasions may not at first sound like the most gripping subject for the latest volume of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue:
Philippe Herreweghe has always meticulously hand-picked Bach cantatas (previously with both Virgin and Harmonia Mundi), resisting the completist route and...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2013
In a 1939 interview, Rachmaninov confessed that stylistically he ‘felt like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013
Following releases on Signum, the London Sinfonietta continues its in-house label with a disc of recent works – five of...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013
I doubt whether Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell and Edgard Varèse thought of themselves as ‘maverick’ any more than bananas taste...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 02/2013
Naxos is boldly stepping into the breach vacated by Chandos to give us the few remaining Weinberg symphonies yet to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013
The LPO label’s third disc of Mark-Anthony Turnage (the orchestra’s Composer in Residence from 2005 to 2010) may have arrived...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 02/2013
For the fifth volume of Telemann’s violin concertos, Elizabeth Wallfisch uses a different orchestra from the one on Vol 4...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013
First a word about Naïve’s superlative presentation, a hard-covered story-book with attractive fantastical illustrations that resemble lino cuts and with...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013
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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