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...
The two bits of bread and butter in this musical sandwich are Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto and Franck’s Variations symphoniques....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
First, a minor glitch: it occurs at 2'52" into the D major Slavonic Dance (Op 46 No 6), where a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
Gli Incogniti and Amandine Beyer have made significant ripples on the Baroque orchestral scene with their flamboyant and refreshing style,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014
‘A composition woven out of nerve fibres’ is how Busoni once described his Nocturne symphonique (1912 13) and, with its...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2014
Plenty to get excited about here, first and foremost the sheer energy of Skrowaczewski’s performance, or most of it; the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
This could have been so cheesy, couldn’t it? Pergolesi-based improvisations by a jazz singer, a jazz pianist, a classically trained...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2014
The origin of term ‘madrigal’ is a matter of debate: it may be linked to the notion of the mother-tongue,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 02/2014
Like Edith Piaf,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2014
This is the...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 02/2014
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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