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...
The 1954 recording of Barber’s Hermit Songs with Leontyne Price and the composer is a revelation. He plays the piano...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 09/2012
This luxuriantly packaged first volume of a new series, ‘Bach Contextual’, appears as something of a hybrid: a CD with...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 09/2012
Sigiswald Kuijken’s thoughtful and measured St John presents quite a contrast to two recent readings, from the comparatively uneventful Nico...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue:
Composers from the between-the-wars lost generation keep coming to the surface and, just because their achievements are modest compared to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2012
One wonders how Gregorio Allegri would have reacted to his posthumous fame. Past the initial amazement at being remembered at...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2012
This is a liturgical re-creation of Second Vespers of the Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary as...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2012
Flying down from the gods to the stage in Copenhagen’s handsome Concert Hall is akin to a Harry Potter experience....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2012
Russian composers, Alfred Schnittke being the obvious exception, have largely been immune from the so-called ‘Curse of the Ninth’. Shostakovich...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 09/2012
The booklet-note to this fourth volume of Vivaldi violin concertos from Naïve implies (unintentionally, I think) that all the works...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2012
Hailing from the Polish city of Łódz´ and a product of Warsaw Conservatory, Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) moved to Paris in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2012
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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