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...
As if mindful of the reception nowadays accorded the more radical of today’s music, Björn Heller bases his booklet-note on...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/2012
Born in 1969, Peter Fribbins is a composer very much in the tradition of Britten and Tippett, unafraid to write...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: AW/2012
A friend of Telemann and enthusiast for Vivaldi whose own music was admired by Bach, Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) has...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW/2012
This was my first encounter with the Italian cellist Mario Brunello. A pupil of Antonio Janigro and joint winner of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW/2012
Small ensemble, 18-strong, big music-making; modest scoring – strings with pairs of oboes and horns – but a wide-ranging imagination...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2012
Now here’s a strange thing: Colin Matthews’s orchestrations of the two books of piano Préludes are already included on the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012
Little known outside Poland, Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) was an important figure in the musical life of his country, a conductor,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012
An initial session with these performances confirms that among the most striking aspects of Sergiu Celibidache’s Bruckner is its tendency...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012
I am aware that many listeners sense an indefinable humanity in the great conducting of the past that simply isn’t...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012
Though not wishing to start on a downer, just sample the last minute or so of the Third Symphony in...
Reviewed 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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