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 music that entertained George I during his trip down the River Thames from Whitehall to Chelsea on July 17,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
US-born but resident in the Netherlands these last three decades, Ron Ford has latterly been active as a recording producer...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2014
Last year’s release of Debussy’s La mer and Première Suite by François-Xavier Roth and his Les Siècles orchestra proved to...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2014
While not a great lover of Delius’s music, I have thoroughly enjoyed this new, themed issue from Chandos. As Andrew...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014
Corelli’s performances in Rome were sponsored by patrons such as Cardinal Ottoboni and the Marquis Ruspoli. Surviving documents such as...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
This is the fourth volume in Guild’s series devoted to (and my own first encounter with) the music of Lucerne-born...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2014
‘In these concerts I couldn’t make enough slowings and accelerations,’ wrote Brahms to Joseph Joachim in 1886. He was reporting...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2014
Intrepid to be sure was Miklós Spányi in 1997 when he began his project to record CPE Bach’s solo keyboard...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2014
As has been remarked in these pages before, Atterberg’s early Second Symphony (1911-12) is tricky to balance. Initially a Romantic...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2014
Hendrik Andriessen (father of the better-known Louis) is a natural target for the attentions of CPO and the excellent Netherlands...
Reviewed by David Fanning 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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