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...
Delius had a lifelong devotion to Scandinavia and Scandinavian music, so it is apt that this issue should offer versions...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2012
Ranging from the early (but later revised) Verlaine settings in Fêtes galantes to the Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012
This disc of premiere recordings of music by one of the most popular British choral composers is dominated by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2012
‘This music has the power to connect the avant-garde with the lost paradise of tonality,’ said Robin Holloway once about...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2012
It has almost become a rite of passage for English tenors to record Britten’s orchestral song-cycles. Mark Padmore has held...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 06/2012
Ray Chen, Gramophone’s One to Watch in February 2011, played these concertos at the Menuhin Competition in 2008 (Mendelssohn) and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2012
Saul is one of Handel’s most distinctive and greatest masterpieces. Composed only a few years before he ceased writing Italian...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2012
I thought this was going to be a disc of two halves. In fact, it is more of a continuous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
There’s something uniquely exciting about hearing a keen young orchestra devouring difficult but exciting music whole, which is precisely what...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2012
New and imaginative ways of programming Baroque repertoire that was never intended for the modern concert or CD formats are...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2012
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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