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...
Making any kind of music documentary is fraught with difficulty, never mind when the subject is a pillar of the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2012
Heaven only knows why but the title of Jonathan Harvey’s Bird Concerto with Pianosong makes me smile before having heard...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2012
Johann Friedrich Fasch, a contemporary of Bach, led a quiet life as Kapellmeister at the small German court of Zerbst....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2012
Like Sergiu Celibidache, Bernard Haitink is a devoted Brucknerian whose tempi have broadened with the passing years – certainly in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2012
The Gothic Symphony is a fabulous work in every sense of the word. Of epic scale and the stuff of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2012
Readings of the four Brahms symphonies which are as musicianly and clear-sighted as these beg the question: why is conductor...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2012
Berlioz’s Harold en Italie lends itself well to the period-instrument treatment offered to it by Les Musiciens du Louvre. The...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2012
This is a performance on period instruments by a chamber orchestra, but that is not to say that the sound...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2012
Mikhail Simonyan was born in Russia (his father is Armenian) but from the age of 12 spent much of his...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 02/2012
Here we have two performances of selected Bach keyboard concertos, both on modern piano, and they couldn’t be more different....
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 02/2012
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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