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 may not look like it at first but there are three completely different orchestras on this disc. The European...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2013
If you exclude the credits and the pauses between movements, this performance lasts just short of 75 minutes, about par...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2013
There is something of a ‘genre within a genre’ when one reaches late Bach cantatas – especially those works which...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2013
What an enticing programme this is. I’ve long had a serious soft spot for Debussy’s youthful Fantaisie, a work in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013
Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto was composed as a direct response to the killing of James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
Jörg Widmann is 40 this year and well placed to assume the late Hans Werner Henze’s pivotal role in the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2013
Villa-Lobos’s Five Preludes (1940) are, alongside the Twelve Studies (1924 29; not included on this new disc), the cornerstones of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013
Stravinsky once described the piano as the ‘fulcrum’ of his compositional activity, presumably meaning that he used it to lever...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 08/2013
Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune, Boléro and The Rite of Spring tiptoe into existence by stealth, solo woodwinds making an...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2013
Strauss’s Josephslegende is a bit of a slog. An hour-long ballet, written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in Paris...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
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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