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...
Here are two live versions of Beethoven’s mighty work, recorded 35 years apart. The Cologne performance was taped in a...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2012
This is Philippe Herreweghe’s third commercial recording of the Mass in B minor in 23 years and, unlike many conductors...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012
The St John Passion was one of Bach’s most ambitious undertakings soon after arriving in Leipzig in 1723 but the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2012
In 2010 we had Neapolitan flute concertos from Auser Musici (Hyperion, 4/10), and very nice they were too. Now here...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2012
The flute and its predecessor, the recorder, have both attracted composers to write bravura concertos since the beginning of musical...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 08/2012
The Swedish composer Adolf Wiklund does not make it into every reference work and, unless you are a student of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2012
Word is beginning to get around that Weinberg’s Sixth should be on the shortlist for anyone wondering where to make...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2012
La cetra (‘The Lyre’) was published in Amsterdam in 1727, dedicated to the Austrian emperor, Charles VI. (Confusingly, another manuscript...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012
Sayaka Shoji has excellent credentials as a player of these concertos. The cantabile lines that play an important role in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2012
I had hoped that this might prove the perfect recording with which to remember the late, lamented Yakov Kreizberg –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2012
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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