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...
Perhaps if he’d lived today, Liszt would have contented himself with Instagram selfies alongside Raphael’s Lo Sposalizio and Michelangelo’s Il...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2019
Jan Bartoš follows up his first two Supraphon releases respectively devoted to Mozart concertos (10/17) and Beethoven sonatas (A/18) with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019
The Danish composer Fini Henriques (born Valdemar Fini Henriques, 1867-1940) is not nearly as well known today as he deserves....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2019
Carl David Stegmann (1751-1826) was a composer, conductor and tenor based mainly in northern and eastern Germany. Alongside his own...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019
The fact that the keyboard version of The Seven Last Words has come down to us in an arrangement not...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019
Two Englishmen playing César Franck on two English cathedral organs. You would have thought they would have much in common,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2019
Busoni’s music can on occasion remind me of that quip by Eduard Hanslick when he encountered Brahms’s Fourth Symphony for...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2019
This previously unreleased live performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 took place in March 1987, just one month after...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019
The element most characteristic of the toccata – from the earliest lute and keyboard pieces in 16th-century Italy to more...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2019
Franz Halász does something interesting here. Well, of course he does – you’ve heard his Henze, Berio and Takemitsu …...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 09/2019
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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