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...
Janowski’s early success with The Ring on record (now RCA, and see my survey of the cycle, A/07) makes him...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW/2011
New recordings of Capriccio appear seldom but this one really isn’t meant to compete. It appears to be an afterthought,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2011
Productions of Rusalka come in two varieties: the picturesque traditional and the psychologically probing. This DVD from Munich goes for...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW/2011
“It is tempting, perhaps, but unrewarding,” wrote Harold Macmillan in 1973, “to hang about the green room after final retirement...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2011
The Metropolitan Opera’s Franco Zeffirelli production of Turandothas nearly achieved tourist-attraction status in New York since first leaving the public...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW/2011
Conductors, especially British ones, who study the Tenth early on tend to become determined champions. Mark Wigglesworth has performed the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2011
For a time Klaus Tennstedt (1926-98) seemed destined to become EMI’s next ‘Grand Old Man’, a less worldly, less cerebral...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2011
Some expected Norrington attributes (uncluttered textures, minimal vibrato, etc) help focus the bare essentials of both masterpieces, the Seventh emerging...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue:
The aqueous glints and flecks of colour in Debussy’s La mer are attractively caught in this performance by the Seoul...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2011
The inter-reliance of keyboard and orchestra creating something ‘positively embedded’ (beyond mere dialogue) represents both the practical and ideological substance...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2011
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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