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...
It’s now some 10 years since JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic gave us their first Respighi disc, a programme...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2019
Markus Becker’s love affair with Reger’s piano oeuvre first manifested itself on CD with the complete solo piano music, initially...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2019
Although virtually unknown outside his native land, Alberto Nepomuceno (1864-1920) is one of the luminaries of Brazilian music. He composed...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2019
Josef Mysliveček (1737 81) was 26 years old when he left his native Prague for Italy, where he studied with...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 05/2019
Erwin Stein’s arrangement of the Fourth set the precedent for attempts to compress and deconstruct Mahler that have more recently...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2019
Pity the poor bassoon, imprisoned in the depths of the woodwind section, usually let out only for brief comedy turns,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
One of Haydn’s oddest commissions came from a church in Cádiz for a sequence of orchestral ‘sonatas’ depicting each of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2019
Giovanni Giornovich (1747-1804) was perhaps born at sea, definitely baptised in Palermo, probably held a French passport and certainly appeared...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2019
Vasily Petrenko directs an admirably trim, affectionate and cannily paced Enigma, free of fussy intervention and marked by superb orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2019
It’s difficult to imagine an album coupling these two works not being an enjoyable listen. And so it proves with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2019
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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