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...
It’s not unusual for vocalists to possess a certain instrumental facility and vice versa, or to be proficient on more...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2015
Sakari Oramo’s cycle of Nielsen symphonies roars to its conclusion with an account of the Second, The Four Temperaments, irresistibly...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2015
The music of Christopher Wright (b1954) has just recently been making headway in terms of recording, not least his combative...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
The knotty gestation of Les martyrs, explained in impressive and patient detail in Opera Rara’s characteristically excellent documentation for this...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2015
How many Ninths do we really need? From Bruno Walter to Bruno Maderna (BBC, 8/06 – nla) and beyond, the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2015
Five of Poulenc's songs are included in Alice Coote’s recital, L’heure exquise. She begins with ‘Les chemins de l’amour’ and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
While Sibelius long held a deluded idea of himself as a ‘man of the people’, Nielsen actually was one –...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2015
L’Allegro is just the work for those who doubt that the periwigged monument of Victorian imagination was one of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2015
In a pre-concert interview around the time of this recording in June 2014, Elizabeth Watts discussed how her academic background...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2015
Programmes of Robert and Clara Schumann are becoming increasingly popular these days, and Nurit Stark and Cédric Pescia, Israeli and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2015
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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