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...
Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony has, notoriously, suffered wild swings of opinion, from adulation at the time of its performance, the Siege...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2013
Composers throughout history have revamped and updated earlier masterpieces in their own image. Here we have Max Richter’s recomposed version...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2013
At the beginning of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, the title-character torments Eurydice by threatening to play his tedious, hour-plus...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 02/2013
Captivated by clarinets he had heard in Mannheim in 1777 en route to Paris, Mozart used them for the first...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013
Did Mozart suffer from teenage angst? This is not, I must admit, a question that had overly vexed me until...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2013
Among John McCabe’s catalogue of concertos are several double concertos, the most recent being Les martinets noirs (‘Swifts’, 2003), a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2013
First, the bad news. The problems in recorded choral sound that plagued earlier instalments in Markus Stenz’s Mahler cycle with...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 02/2013
The first few pages tell you that this is unlikely to be a Mahler Sixth to challenge or to intimidate....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2013
Though there are myriad recordings of Liszt’s four best-known works for piano and orchestra, to find all four on the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2013
One might argue quality not quantity – and the former is amply in evidence here – but 58 minutes is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson 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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