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...
Dario Castello has in recent years turned into one of the stars of 17th-century instrumental music, a thoroughly deserved status...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2016
Bruckner’s Second Symphony is arguably the most problematic of the canon in terms of textual matters. The critical edition published...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
All the post-war masters looked to Mahler for inspiration in their own ways. To Stockhausen he was a visionary, beyond...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2016
Richard Rodgers liked to tell a story about a Broadway arranger who insisted that he was at least 50 per...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2016
Born to Conduct, the title of the hour-long documentary about Philippe Jordan which is included in the new set, is...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2016
Most LSO Live recordings rigorously eschew applause and include some remedial patching. This one has a different purpose, consciously intended...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016
For most music lovers, the word Scheherazade likely conjures the plush orientalism of Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral tone-poem. John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 (2015)...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Since its foundation in 2005 the British ensemble Voces8 has drawn glowing plaudits for the impeccable quality of its balance...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2016
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have turned to Verlaine settings for their new album for BIS, drawing inevitable comparisons with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Sonnets from Petrarch and Shakespeare to Auden afford a wide scope of musical settings. Ben Johnson’s selection, which had its...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman 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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