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...
One of the most strikingly understated ways to chart the progress of Britten as a composer is to put the...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 12/2013
Recorded in the recital hall of the Liszt birthplace museum at Raiding in Austria, these Brahms performances at times threaten...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013
The Bedroom Community label has built a notable roster of composers and none more so than Reykjavik-born Daníel Bjarnason (34...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2013
For many readers, this second disc of British music for cello and piano will be even more attractive than the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2013
Here’s a generous anthology showcasing three major British contributions to the viola repertoire, all directly inspired by the incomparable Lionel...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013
Had she lived another five years or so, Susan Chilcott, who died of cancer in 2003 at the age of...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013
For those beyond the UK’s shores, David Starkey is a distinguished academic and historian, and a star media performer with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
The texts of this collection of well-known motets take up the cry ‘Libera nos’, common to both the Portuguese and...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2013
Wolf never conceived the vignettes of his Italian Songbook as a unified cycle. The sequence must open with the exquisite...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2013
Barenboim has made a habit of achieving what others just talk of – whether it’s giving the entry of Wagner’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
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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