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...
Although On This Island started out as a work for soprano, it has increasingly been colonised by tenors (the work...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2012
This is very nearly the complete choral music of Barber, apart from extracts from his operas: with a generous duration...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: AW/2012
During the long and nearly completed journey recording all the sacred cantatas, Masaaki Suzuki has only once dipped into the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2012
Leading countertenors of their generation have understandably felt compelled to record at least two of the four solo alto cantatas...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2012
This blissfully unhackneyed and brilliantly executed recital takes memory in all its facets as its theme, and the highlight is...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW/2012
Weber’s clarinet (and horn and bassoon) concertos seem to have joined the ‘waiting for a London bus’ analogy this year....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012
Billed as Vol 4 of a complete edition of Telemann’s violin concertos, the three works recorded here are hybrids; in...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012
The Stereo Record Guide commented in 1960: ‘Not so long ago it was considered fashionable even when writing literature of...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW/2012
Completed just as his friend Wagner was starting rehearsals for the first Ring in Bayreuth, Svendsen’s Second Symphony is a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2012
Regarding British performances of music from beyond these shores, Jiří Bělohlávek is to Czech repertoire what John Wilson is to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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