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 1734 Handel moved his opera company from the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket to John Rich’s new Theatre Royal...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2011
Two recordings of Handel operas from early 1959, both starring the young Joan Sutherland and both captured just weeks before...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2011
Another month, another recording of Florent Schmitt’s La tragédie de Salomé. Anybody who already has the recent ATMA release by...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2011
Miklós Rózsa, born in Budapest, was one of the most gifted of all the composers who moved from his homeland...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2011
Trpceski, Petrenko and the RLPO here join forces for the eagerly awaited follow-up to their Avie recording of Rachmaninov’s Second...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2011
The most popular modern cello concertos tend to be lyric-dramatic, works that appear to tell a story, such as Elgar’s,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2011
If I was to find an apt description of Fauré’s art – its craft and complexity – it would be...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2011
This enterprising recital by Albert Tiu juxtaposes works by Chopin and Scriabin suggesting a mix of parallels and departures. Chopin’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2011
In many cases, only a few seconds’ difference distinguish the timings of the variations on these two sets of Bach’s...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2011
If Mozart is the ancestor of most of the duets here, as Paul Griffiths observes in his booklet-notes, the genetic...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2011
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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