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...
I doubt if anyone has produced a disc of 18th-century domestic music from Birmingham before, but here now is one...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2014
Orphei Drängar was founded in 1853 and is one of the most revered choirs in Sweden. Its repertoire is vast...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2014
Florian Boesch is the kind of baritone who, once heard, makes you want to hear him in any and all...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 03/2014
Bright and soubrettish of tone, Lisa Larsson is not, perhaps, a natural for Haydn’s great Scena di Berenice, music that...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2014
Katrine Gislinge’s rendition of Kreisleriana is full of fantasy, poetry, and ebb and flow. So, of course, are dozens of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2014
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht is not only the illustration of an intense text but a tangible reflection of the intense period...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 03/2014
In about 1696 the Dutch expert viol player Johannes Schenk (c1660-c1712) was employed at the Düsseldorf court of the viol-playing...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
The album is something of a lost art in our age of digital fragmentation. ‘Remember me my deir’ is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2014
Having been warmly reviewed in these pages as recently as the November issue, Ensemble Zefiro would seem at the top...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 03/2014
Not surprisingly, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra play these three masterly symphonic poems with virtuosity, great feeling and a glorious patina...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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