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 first item here is the completion and culmination of Sequentia’s heroic 30-year path towards recording the entire music of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013
This is an enchanting disc. Peter Cornelius is best remembered, at least in Germany, as the composer of the opera...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
Continuing their forays through the less well-known parts of the Renaissance repertory, The Sound and the Fury now give us...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013
As with his previous recordings of Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts (11/11) and Mendelssohn’s Elijah (11/12), Paul McCreesh brings together...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 10/2013
Legendary recording producer Walter Legge is said to have once told Maria Callas that if she didn’t tame her vibrato,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013
David Owen Norris is best known as a pianist, both as a virtuoso soloist and as an accompanist. But here...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
Bach’s sacred cantata-writing was almost non-existent by the mid-1730s which is why, in this penultimate volume of Masaaki Suzuki’s steady...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2013
If, as I did, you find it difficult to get on with the yapping delivery of ‘Ermuntre dich’, the first...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013
Very Superior Persons should skip this. The rest of us can sit back and enjoy it. Piers Lane’s booklet traces...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013
Stefano Grondona continues his interest in the history of the guitar, this recording being a homage to Britten in the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman 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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