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...
Antonin Dvořák never heard his First Symphony. Submitted in 1865 for a competition in Leipzig, it disappeared shortly afterwards. A certain...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2017
>‘The characters of this ballet are like moths in the night, like children who do not know the rules of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
Although his music has attracted significant premieres and several recordings, this is the highest-profile disc yet devoted to the British-French-Israeli composer...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017
If you look back through the Gabrieli Consort’s discography you can see a new trend emerging. Among the large-scale works...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017
Nowadays it is rare for recordings of early polyphony to span Machaut, Victoria and everything in between. The Vienna Vocal Consort are...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017
You could be forgiven if you failed to recognise the overture to Handel’s Alcina behind the jazz piano breaks, plucked bass and klezmer...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
The first main virtue of this issue is that nothing here seems to have been recorded before, apart from Palestrina’s Mass...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2017
One of music’s great risk-takers, Barbara Hannigan goes out on a limb with ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, her debut album as...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
Stephen Wilkinson, who turned 98 this spring, is probably best known as the conductor who led the BBC Northern Singers from 1954...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
Sviridov’s Russia Adrift (also translated as Russia Cast Adrift – the Russian is Otchalivshaya Rus’; either will work) is becoming something of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2017
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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