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...
Born in atec, Bohemia, Karel Reiner (1910-79) was the son of a cantor and graduated with distinction in both music...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2012
I’m not sure we needed a recording of Prokofiev’s symphonic suite The Year 1941 but, as an up-beat to a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2012
Auckland Town Hall is one of those lucky venues that has a vigorous organ of its own (an Orgelbau Klais...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2012
Aarre Merikanto (1893-1958) was a natural-born symphonist, yet his output in that genre is less extensive than it should be....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue:
CD competition in Martinů’s Second Violin Concerto includes an especially fine version by Isabelle Faust with the Prague Philharmonia under...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2012
With his Pan-Slav ideal for Czech lands to be integrated into an entity presided over by the Russians, Janáček would...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2012
The early orchestral works on this recording – the Winter Idyll (1897), Walt Whitman Overture (1899) and Cotswolds Symphony (1899-1900)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2012
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is renowned for its crisp, clean playing, superb ensemble and intonation, and vivacious style. The partnership...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2012
The reviews editor, sending me this CD for comment, personally found Julio Garreta’s music ‘pretty enchanting’. I do too, and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 08/2012
The art of Claus Peter Flor appears to have matured greatly with the passing of time. I can recall interviewing...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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