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...
Radutiu and Rundberg make a formidable duo, equally comfortable in the very different environments of these three works. Lalo’s 1856...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2012
‘Catching Net’ is a huge dirty bomb of a double album that’s going to detonate right under everyone’s cosy assumptions...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 11/2012
Heiner Goebbels’s title might be recondite, though as a ‘performative installation’, first staged in Luxembourg in 2007, Stifters Dinge preaches...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2012
The La Dolce Volta label sets its sights high. Each disc, it says, ‘is conceived in a limited edition as...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
Though Debussy was known to transcribe his own works in piano reductions ranging from Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012
Tansy Davies came into her own on disc with ‘Troubairitz’ (7/11) and this new release rounds out her output in...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012
The absorption of folk tunes into the high-art music of most composers trying to assert their national identity is always...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
Although written over a fairly condensed stretch of time (they don’t cover his whole career but rather the prolific, pre-deafness...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 11/2012
It seems surprising that so many Baroque chamber groups overlook the potential for transforming the six ‘trio sonatas’ for organ...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2012
Now this is something very special, and it marks an exciting debut for Leif Ove Andsnes on Sony after his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2012
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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