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...
It is difficult to imagine a cause less fashionable than that of Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), the Schoenberg pupil who struggled...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
There can be few more raptly compassionate statements in all music than Delius’s 1903 04 Whitman setting Sea Drift, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
French Baroque specialist Edward Higginbottom writes eloquently about Charpentier’s neglect in the shadow of more favoured contemporaries, and it seems...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
The appetite for evolving performance practices in Bach’s St Matthew Passion appears undiminished as we have gradually shifted, over the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
Two new Christmas Oratorio recordings in time for Christmas, and both from forces that give regular concert presentations of the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2013
The opening goes off like a cartoon alarm clock, shrill and insistent, the ensuing march more satirical, almost more Prokofiev...
Reviewed in issue 11/2013
This recording offers an unusual variety of British works for string orchestra played by the Chamber Ensemble of London, directed...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2013
The adjective ‘great’ in the title of this disc perhaps needs some qualification in one or two cases but without...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2013
French trumpet concerto literature was largely generated by a flamboyant generation of great indigenous soloists, led by the irrepressible Maurice...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2013
From its origins in the operatic overture, the symphony evolved from an entertainment to be chattered or munched through to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore 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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