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...
Here is a legendary historical document to follow those 2013 War Requiem recordings reviewed above. A mythology has grown up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013
After 12 months of extraordinary activity, the Britten centenary comes to a fitting close on disc with these two major...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013
How remarkable it is that this perfectly formed 90 minute oratorio should have grown from such an unassuming seed –...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 12/2013
Having made several excellent recordings of sacred music for the Dresden Hofkapelle by Zelenka, it is only natural that the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2013
Like the Christmas Oratorio, Bach’s four settings of the Kyrie and Gloria for the Lutheran liturgy are largely ‘parodied’ from...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2013
While John Eliot Gardiner performed his near-complete Bach sacred cantata ‘pilgrimage’ in the course of the great millennial year in...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013
This is an exceptional realisation of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, one of those rare occasions when one is left with a...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2013
‘Austrian baroque music, spiced with oriental exoticness, virtuosity, scordatura, programmatic approaches, dulcimer & percussion, played on violins by Jacobus Stainer.’...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2013
Hats off to the RSNO and Martin Yates for resurrecting these three substantial orchestral works by Charles-Marie Widor, the composer...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013
During the reigns of Augustus II the Strong (d1733) and his heir Friedrich Augustus III (d1763), the Dresden Hofkapelle employed...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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