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 discography of Hindemith’s great song-cycle setting Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Marienleben, is complicated by the fact that it exists...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
The third volume of Holger Falk and Steffen Schleiermacher’s superb survey of the songs of Hanns Eisler sees them reach...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
In 1920 Pavel Chesnokov was appointed Professor at the Moscow Conservatory, teaching choral techniques. He published a major treatise on...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18
Despite being widely performed since its publication in 2010, the chamber-scaled arrangement of the Requiem by the flautist Johannes Linckelmann...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW18
Harmonia Mundi has decided to mark the centenary of Debussy’s death this year not by issuing a bumper box of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18
With Schubert dead and Schumann devoting himself almost exclusively to the piano, the 1830s might seem a relatively fallow, ‘in-between’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW18
Although Arthur Vincent Lourié was a key figure among Russian composers involved in the Futurist movement, his earlier works often...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW18
Given that this album has taken up permanent residence beside my stereo since it popped on to my doormat a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW18
The Hans Gál revival – on disc, at least – continues apace. With the symphonies, concertos and concertinos, complete piano...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW18
Any operatic adaptation of Hamlet is going to face scrutiny against Shakespeare’s text, but that process is surely futile from...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18
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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