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...
Joseph Martin Kraus is best known for being born in the same year as Mozart and for writing the music...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012
The programme’s a generous one, with the Royal Philharmonic sounding in eminently healthy fettle (though the Cadogan Hall acoustic imparts...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2012
Avie’s rehabilitation of Hans Gál (1890-1987) continues in handsome fashion with a superb first recording of his Cello Concerto. Written,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2012
This enterprising disc includes a first performance and recording of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Four Dances from Love’s Labour’s Lost given, like the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012
This is the seventh disc of Bruckner symphonies that Ivor Bolton has recorded for the Oehms label. I confess I...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2012
Rob Cowan found the First Symphony of this cycle heavy-set (3/11) and the Second pursues a similarly direct and unhurried...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2012
Schelomo (‘Solomon’) grew from a project to set verses from the book of Ecclesiastes but Bloch later opted for a...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012
Over a number of years, Philippe Quint has developed a close alliance with the Mexican Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012
‘The triumph of love’ runs the rubric, though, as Sandrine Piau comments in the booklet, Cupid’s triumph is rarely shared...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2012
The operatic pasticcio – literally ‘hotch-potch’ or ‘pudding’ – was fair game for 18th-century satirists. Unfazed, impresarios and composers, Handel...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue:
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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