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...
All-female ensembles are decidedly ‘in’: after Vox Feminae, Discantus and Anonymous 4, here comes Tapestry, a four-member Boston-based group, founded...
Reviewed by mberry in issue: 7/1998
The church of St Nikolai boasts a new (2003), Dutch-built organ, a generously-appointed three-manual instrument, designed on French Romantic lines...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 4/2005
The Sixth is Prokofiev's greatest symphony (as RL has been claiming for years) though it remains, inexplicably, among his least...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1994
The history behind Joseph Holbrooke’s Clarinet Quintet in G certainly weaves a tangled musicological web! The work has its roots...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2003
Presenting them in their published order, followed by the 11 posthumous waltzes with and without opus numbers, Ingrid Fliter sets...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2009
Eliahu Inbal has put all Brucknerians in his debt with his recordings of the first versions of the Third, Fourth...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 8/1986
What is so special about Karajan’s digital recordings that they are reissued at full price and, ungenerously in this case,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1996
Joseph Achron’s identity as a pioneering Jewish composer was more extensive and ran deeper than his Hebrew Melody,/I> and Hebrew...
Reviewed by Lawrence Johnson in issue: 1/2004
Consider Stravinsky’s Russian phase, and the three great ballets automatically spring to mind; Les noces (“The wedding”), however, tends to...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 9/1996
One of my most abiding musical memories is of a series of three concerts at the Goldsmiths’ Hall where the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 9/2005
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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