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...
Using roughly the same idiom as his Symphonies Nos 11, 12 and 13, Shostakovich’s The Execution of Stepan Razin tells...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2013
The atmosphere of perfumed ritual in Poulenc’s Gloria finds a ready response in this performance by Parisian forces under Paavo...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013
Michi Gaigg’s exploration of the azione sacra (sacred drama) Betulia liberata is the latest addition to what is turning out...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2013
The Marian Consort may be the most recent of the various vocal groups to emerge from the college choirs of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 12/2013
Female British singers seem to have a special relationship with Mahler’s song-symphony and two of today’s finest mezzos are represented...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013
Recordings of Lassus’s late masterpiece have appeared at reasonably regular intervals since the 400th anniversary of his death in 1994....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2013
This is an attractive collection of some of Janáček’s most touching and entertaining music. The 19 numbers that make up...
Reviewed in issue 12/2013
While this recording embodies a special poignancy – it was after the first take of the First Choral Symphony in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2013
No single authentic version of Belshazzar (1745) offers an ideal text, so William Christie collates what he thinks is ‘the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2013
On this evidence, Edo de Waart is clearly an Elgar conductor of no mean instinct. Both performances benefit from his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013
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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