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...
In his selective series of cantatas (one for each Sunday and High Feast), Sigiswald Kuijken visits the lively world of...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2013
Peter Rosen’s 1985 film, scripted by Harvey Sachs, very much presents Toscasisi rather than Toscanono, as you might expect from...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2013
For years I avoided opening-night galas, thinking I was allergic to champagne. Turns out, though, it was the programming that...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: AW2013
There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2013
Scandinavian string-playing continues to gleam with virtuosity in this Norwegian round-up of what are effectively highlights of such repertoire in...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2013
Marcel Tyberg was a victim of the Holocaust but his scores were saved and have recently been championed by the...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: AW2013
Dance rhythms run through all these three scores, even the attractive Dumbarton Oaks concerto for which Stravinsky drew an analogy...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: AW2013
Of four new Francophone Rites – taking into account (8/13) the recordings conducted by Paavo Järvi and Philippe Jordan –...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW2013
You’d think that, in theory at least, Richard Strauss tone-poems that are conducted with what seems like a minimum of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2013
There is no shame in reaching the age of 80 without ever having released a Schumann symphony on disc, but...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013
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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