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...
Apart from various Carmina Burana selections over the years, there have been remarkably few recordings of the conductus repertory –...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW/2012
Will Todd’s moment in the glare of popular consciousness came in June when his anthem The Call of Wisdom was...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW/2012
Musicologists concur with the judgement of late-17th-century writers and musicians: Alessandro Stradella (1639-82) was the finest Italian composer of his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012
It’s hard to dispute the notion that Jean Richafort wrote his sumptuous Requiem as a memorial to Josquin, so shot...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2012
Otto Nicolai (1810-49), a contemporary of Mendelssohn, is renowned for composing a delightful opera, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, and...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: AW/2012
The more one hears Mouton’s music, the stranger seems the oft-quoted description of him by a 16th-century theorist as the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: AW/2012
In the 1940s and ’50s Antony Hopkins was a familiar name as composer, conductor, broadcaster, author, lecturer, first-rate pianist –...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW/2012
An odd programme – Purcell songs and Handel’s radiant solo motet Silete venti, with items for the girls and boys...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2012
Handel set Dryden’s sophisticated St Cecilia ode Alexander’s Feast in 1736 and three years later he turned his attention to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012
The Decca Eloquence label has become a wonderful source of welcome rarities, thanks to the initiative and deep knowledge of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/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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