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...
Born in 1881, Karl Weigl received lessons from Zemlinsky as a teenager, studied alongside Webern at the University of Vienna,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2019
Three cheers to Chandos and their house team of conductor Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic for flying the flag...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2019
Max Richter’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons may not have been met with unanimous critical approval when its premiere...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2019
Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony has long been a showcase both for engineering prowess and for the capabilities of one’s hi-fi kit....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2019
Mark van de Wiel is principal clarinettist of the Philharmonia but here he steps out of his usual seat to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2019
Joseph Marx is little more than a footnote today, though Naxos is trying to put that right, bringing back to...
Reviewed in issue 09/2019
School of Barbirolli. That was my first thought as the faltering pulse of the opening bars ushered in the warm...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2019
Overshadowed by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and other luminaries of 20th-century Russian music, Dmitry Kabalevsky nevertheless composed at least one work in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2019
Apparently ‘the cockney Wagner’ Josef Holbrooke was neither a cockney (born in Croydon, settled in Haringey) nor a Wagnerian (more...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2019
The curtain rips apart with brash glissandos, followed by syncopated bitonality that cries out ‘Busoni in Trinidad!’, only to morph...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2019
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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