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...
Knut Erik Sundquist’s recital replicates the contents of a recording by the Viennese virtuoso Ludwig Streicher (Teldec – nla) made...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 08/2012
Borodin got in ahead of his critics by admitting candidly that his String Sextet was ‘very Mendelssohnian’, excusing himself on...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2012
There’s a twofold irony about The Bartered Bride. With its jolly picture of village life, its choruses and its dances,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2012
Among the operas I’d most love to hear Simon Rattle conduct, Carmen isn’t even on the list, much less at...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012
In describing Iván Fischer’s account of Mahler’s Symphony No 1 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra at last year’s Proms, the...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 09/2012
Juxtaposing Lutosławski’s Funeral Music in memory of Béla Bartók (1956-58) with the Hungarian’s Divertimento (1939) is apt beyond the textural...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2012
Whether by accident or intentioned design, this anthology of electronic composition created at the Danish Institute of Electronic Music between...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012
These six exuberantly virtuoso sonatas for two oboes, bassoon and continuo are the works that brought Zelenka into our modern-day...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW/2012
Since forming in 1991, the Quatuor Danel has made a particular study of Weinberg and this disc is the final...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW/2012
It might have been a terrifying set of hurdles in its time; but if today’s quartets are not awed by...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni 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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