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...
Bruno Weil’s initial basic tempo, held with conviction but not rigidity through the first movement’s vicissitudes, is crotchet=78: much less...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
The Vienna Philharmonic gave this concert a little over a year after Simon Rattle had recorded the nine symphonies for...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
It must be said that Nemanja Radulovic´’s Bach and I did not get off to a good start. The disc...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
Now in his mid-70s, Vyacheslav Artyomov is best known for his six cosmic-mystical-syncretic symphonies, which together make up one of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
As television presentations go, this often treasurable account of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius is very much of its time...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2016
You can tell within seconds that you’re listening to a Capella de la Torre recording. This award-winning early music ensemble...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 12/2016
I have an abiding memory of attending a Norwegian Soloists’ Choir concert that journeyed through a tricky smorgasbord of Messiaen,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2016
Period-instrument C minor Masses get better and better. The bar was set in the mid 1980s by Gardiner and Hogwood,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016
Here, for the first time, we can hear what appears to be a lost cantata by François Couperin. Numerous of...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 12/2016
Józef Nowakowski (1800 65) and Józef Krogulski (1815 42). Even in their native Poland their names are hardly known. On...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016
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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