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...
‘Rare Fauré’ might be a better, if not entirely accurate title for this attractive disc, in which Ivor Bolton conducts...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
Both soloist and conductor have already given us notable versions of The Music Makers – for Naxos (12/06) and Teldec/Warner...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2018
‘Semper Dowland, semper dolens’, John Dowland famously punned, but the composer’s First Booke of Songes or Ayres couldn’t be further...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018
Havergal Brian’s cantata The Vision of Cleopatra (1907) is the most ambitious work of his earliest period, ie before the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018
Xenia Löffler’s performances on a 2014 disc of assorted Venetian concertos (10/14) from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018
This excellent CD fills significant gaps in the Anderson discography. At the same time it reminds us of the huge...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2018
‘I saw the lilacs still in full bloom, the grass still long, and the roses just starting to blossom.’ Tchaikovsky’s...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 12/2018
Theodor Adorno once said that ‘every visit to the cinema leaves me, against all my vigilance, stupider and worse’. Despite...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2018
This disc is designed as a concerto showcase for four of The English Concert’s regular members, and does a very...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018
Silesian-born Anton Zimmermann (1741 81) spent much of his short life as director of the court orchestra in Pressburg (now...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018
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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