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...
>William Hayes (1708-77) was an important writer on musical aesthetics, staunch ally of Handel and one of the founders of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2013
A handful of items we’ve had before – that unforgettable treatment of Kipling’s execution ballad Danny Deever, the exuberant and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue:
As I’ve mentioned in a previous review (of Victoria’s six-voice Requiem – Signum, 7/11), Tenebrae’s fondness for a monumental sound,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue:
Ian Bostridge singing Benjamin Britten is an event. Besides his innate ability to fill the vocal and interpretative shoes of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2013
The focus of this complete set of the Canticles is tenor Ben Johnson, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2013
This work may seem surprising in the context of a festival called ‘Chopin and his Europe’, but no matter. Philippe...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2013
Although his reputation today rests largely on his being the first great international double-bass virtuoso, Giovanni Bottesini (1821-89) also composed...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2013
With the news of the death of Sir Colin Davis in April it is a melancholy pleasure to welcome what...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 06/2013
He looks hardly old enough to have started shaving but, lo, the flash of a smile, an energised swing of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
Władysław Z˙elen´ski’s overture In the Tatras (1870) is still a popular concert item in Poland and Aleksander Zarzycki’s Mazurka in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
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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