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 1920s and ’30s were not kind to composers – all of Berg, Busoni, Elgar and Puccini were struck down...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
All who were present at the performances of Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh beach this summer agree it was an unforgettable...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013
Le Docteur Miracle, Bizet’s second opera, came about as the result of a competition. Six composers from a list of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
For their newest venture, Schloss vor Husum dig ever deeper into the byways of piano literature. And if not everything...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013
The tape of this 1971 recital comes from Shura Cherkassky’s own private collection housed at the British Library, but no...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
The likelihood is that Bruno Walter designed his transcriptions of Mahler’s First and Second Symphonies for public performance. Dynamics, phrasings...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
‘The Sudden Pianist’ desperately wants you to believe in the dream that 40-something pianist/composer Michael Hersch is, as the cover...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
Very little of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s piano music has been recorded. If the four works here have previously made it complete...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2013
Few composers have so determinedly avoided popularity as Busoni. An idealist, he dismissed one musical luminary after another. Schumann and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2013
To choose the last three Beethoven sonatas as your debut recording might be seen as headstrong, but the last five?...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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