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...
As album concepts go, this one requires explanation if the music is to be anything more than a pleasant, lightweight...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2012
Rattle, Kissin, the Berlin Phil, New Year’s Eve: a delightful prospect – and viewable, by means of this DVD or...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
Flute concertos gathered together can produce a certain sameness of texture (as in Vivaldi), although not perhaps in the hands...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2012
Carmen and Porgy and Bess are both dramatic scores full of rich pickings for any arranger for orchestra with a...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2012
The bicentenary of William Vincent Wallace (1812-65) has drawn deserved attention to a neglected British composer. A new biography documents...
Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 12/2012
Like Herbert von Karajan, Valery Gergiev has recorded Tchaikovsky’s last three symphonies on so many occasions that it must be...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
In the mid-1960s the BBC broadcast three orchestral programmes under the pessimistic title The Symphonic Twilight, which afforded the first...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2012
Gentle languor, as expressed in the Pavane pour une infante défunte and the nocturnal shadows in the first movement of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
Early Rachmaninov meets mature Rachmaninov with the two dances and intermezzo from his student opera Aleko of 1892 and the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
Not since the mid-1990s, when Praga paired Serge Baudo in No 5 with an incendiary No 6 from the Leningrad...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2012
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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