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...
The emancipation of the human voice in terms of communicating the intricacies and inflections of the French language is comprehensively...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
I’m not a fan of filmed concerts but I do wish this recording had been made for DVD, as the...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
It was Violet Pearn (1890-1947) who decided to stage Algernon Blackwood’s (1869-1951) children’s book A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913), and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012
Sir Mark Elder and his Hallé forces continue to set stellar standards in large-scale Elgar and this new recording of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012
Even the best-informed Dvořák followers may not realise that his 1887 Cypresses, the collection of string quartet miniatures that often...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2012
With its title quoting Walt Whitman, Jonathan Dove’s 50-minute cantata commemorates the life of a boy who was tragically drowned...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 11/2012
Alpha’s house-style of booklets containing erudite essays on both the music and the fine art featured on the front cover...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2012
Havergal Brian’s many songs and part-songs as well as the Gothic Symphony confirm what an accomplished word-setter he was. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
In his vocal autumn, Robert Holl fields a bass-baritone of slightly grizzled nobility, with impressive sonorous depth. If high notes...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012
This disc is taken from the original master tapes of what is now West German Radio. If ever there was...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2012
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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