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...
This is an appealing concert that cleverly mixes the familiar with the unfamiliar and includes a well-known piece in an...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2012
I’m sorry to begin in captious vein, but here goes. Anyone buying this ‘blind’ might expect 18 different songs. Instead...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2012
Here are Charpentier’s two auditions for the Prix de Rome written in Paris in 1887 and two ‘on-site’ winner’s pieces...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2012
John Eliot Gardiner first recorded the German Requiem in 1990, one of the first discs with his then newly formed...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012
Created last year expressly for conductor Philippe Herreweghe to explore on disc his wide-ranging musicological and interpretative interests, the PHI...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2012
Blackford’s third major choral and orchestral work will, I feel sure, be quickly added to that illustrious lineage of pacifist...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 05/2012
The half-century volume of this most considered of Bach cantata series reaches that point, late in the journey, where only...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2012
This is Simon Trp∂eski’s first mixed recital disc since his acclaimed debut album for EMI in 2002 (8/02), the first...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
Sokolov first came to attention by winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1966, aged 16. For his final audition he...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
A few words of clarification before tackling the performances, as most of the booklet is taken up with an imaginary...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
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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