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...
Beecham’s adage that ‘a musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it’ needs to be revised,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 02/2013
It was no surprise to learn that the young German guitarist Martin Hegel has attended masterclasses with David Russell and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2013
None of the pieces here bears the title ‘Jeux d’été’ but there is a summery warmth running through the programme....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue:
Another bright new Baroque group takes the stage, this time from France and offering a programme of five violin sonatas...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2013
It is particularly gratifying to see that the rich repertoire of 19th- and early-20th-century British cello music, like its considerable...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2013
Poland’s hopes of widening international awareness of its country’s 19th-century music have long been high on the agenda but, with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2013
Peteris Vasks’s 30-minute Episodi e canto perpetuo is subtitled Hommage à O Messiaen. That’s all well and good. In fact...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2013
The seemingly strange juxtaposition of Yun and Schumann must make a lot of sense to Isang Enders, with his mixed...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 02/2013
One of the disconcerting things about listening to Wolfgang Rihm’s music is the impression of a composer thinking aloud, but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2013
Both Respighi and Richard Strauss made their reputations with large-scale orchestral works, at one time described by the critics as...
Reviewed by Ivan March 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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