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...
Ironically, Turina’s conversion to his native musical roots took place not in Spain but in Paris. Arriving in what was...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 07/2011
Ben Johnston’s got to be some kind of genius. Anyone who can simultaneously make a string quartet sound like a...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011
Among the hardest challenges in all music must be to keep over an hour’s worth of recorder quartet-playing alive without...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011
“It would be idle to pretend they are among his best works, for they all date from the years when...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
An enterprising programme here from the Trio Paian. I’ve long had a great affection for Chausson’s only Piano Trio, written...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
The pianist, we are told in the booklet biography, is an artist whose “consummate technique enables her to coax unimaginable...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2011
Listening to the opening of the First Sonata’s Adagio, played with little vibrato and flexible interpretation of the ornamental flourishes,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 07/2011
There is a long tradition of singers graduating from the Wagnerian bel canto of Wolfram in Tannhäuser to the more...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011
If you stumbled upon this live concert recording under the clandestine circumstances of some blog, the insider status would override...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2011
This absorbing documentary ends as Stephen Fry enters the Bayreuth Festival Theatre for a 2009 performance. His last words to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011
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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