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...
Big works, and written to be premiered in the Hanover Square Rooms during Haydn’s second London visit in 1794. Thus...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2011
We have already heard John Wilson as a passionate exponent of English music directing a splendid new collection of John...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
The scene is the Royal Festival Hall, London. The occasion is a concert to mark the centenary of Vaughan Williams’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2011
One man’s meat is another man’s poison, so I’d better state straight away that the visuals are not to my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011
Hot on the heels of Honeck’s ear-popping Mahler Third comes this fiery and impassioned Tchaikovsky Fifth. Clearly what’s happening in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2011
Les orientales was a potpourri of quasi-oriental dances assembled by Diaghilev (for, among others, Nijinsky and Karsavina) in Paris in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011
Who is it for, this odd coupling drawn from two concerts given in 2008? Supporting the project is the Polska...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2011
With the Sixth and Twelfth Symphonies, the RLPO harnesses one of the most profoundly thought-out of Shostakovich’s conceptions to one...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2011
As Kaija Saariaho approaches her 60th birthday, her music continues to extend in range and depth. Susana Välimäki’s moving note...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2011
Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations continues to be one of his most popular pieces, beloved of cellists as well as their audiences....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2011
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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