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...
Many moons ago, Robert King and The King’s Consort recorded two enjoyably diverse Handel recitals with James Bowman (‘Heroic Arias’...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
This disc collects together much of Grieg’s work with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norway’s ‘other’ star poet and writer of the late...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2014
Cherubini cannily steered a safe course through politically turbulent times, whether he was performing for Marie Antoinette at Versailles, responding...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
Following her recordings of 18th-century French chamber music, the violinist Florence Malgloire scrolled further back to Charpentier, who composed relatively...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2014
Born in Cornwall in 1961, Paul Carr pursued a successful career in operatic stage management before devoting himself full-time to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2014
Among Britten’s unrecorded works, The Ascent of F6 has long looked one of the most intriguing (the BBC hold an...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2014
Now presented complete, Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion’s exceptional Lutheran Mass performances, in this often unjustly neglected genre, remind us of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2014
Lorin Maazel’s Mahler cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic was nothing if not tonally distinctive, the Fourth and Seventh being spectacular...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
A delightful anthology of lovely songs transcribed for clarinet and strings by Fabian Müller that will surely be welcomed by...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2014
Considering that Alexander von Zemlinsky was in his twenties when he composed his two early symphonies, both works demonstrate an...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2014
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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