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 shadow of Tchaikovsky is sometimes said to fall over both of these fine works; it would be fairer to...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2013
As precious as the title sounds to hardened urbanites, it serves warning about the singular musical world created by this...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013
Three years ago I reviewed Hesperion XXI’s very enjoyable anthology of early Latin American music (‘El Nuevo Mundo’ – Alia...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013
An album of Baroque love duets seems to tumble off the presses every other month. Not that I’m complaining when...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2013
The Cardinall’s Musick have won plaudits for their Tallis in the past and their return to him after a hiatus...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013
Two of Szymanowski’s most sublime later works here receive performances entirely commensurate with their stature and thoroughly in tune with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
Compared with the UK and the USA, Germany has in general been slow to embrace the music of Rachmaninov, or...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
With the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music under his belt (for his debut opera, Silent Night), all ears are turned...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2013
An unexpected sound greets you at the very beginning of this CD: ‘Sound the trumpet’ as a duet not for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013
Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
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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