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...
This sequel continues flautist Carlo Ipata’s probing exploration of the remotest corners of early-18th-century Neapolitan repertoire. None of the composers...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2013
Reiner Moritz is among the most experienced and distinguished of filmed music producers, the ideal figure, you would have thought,...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
What with the publication of Michael Haas’s Forbidden Music (see page 90), there’s hope yet for an extra boost to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2013
Here is a splendid showcase for Thomas Jensen’s magnetic interpretations of these four contrasted items. Nielsen’s Flute Concerto may be...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2013
This is Vol 9 of Hänssler Classic’s survey of Ballets Russes scores and features three Diaghilev commissions. Most of us...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
Preserved on two specially commissioned long-playing acetates in the possession of Arthur Ridgewell (the executive producer of this...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2008
Sir Mark Elder’s stirring account of the magnificent “Prelude” from The Kingdom (which shared a CD with Thomas Zehetmair’s Gramophone...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2010
As Eric Schulz’s new documentary about Herbert von Karajan is drawing to a close, a bombshell. ‘I believe we have...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2013
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s carefree and endearingly garrulous Souvenir de Florence – whether in its original guise as a string...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2013
Fool’s Paradise, for string orchestra, evolved from a piano trio by Joby Talbot about which we are told relatively little...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 07/2013
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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