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 must be a world record for William Christie to have conducted four different commercial releases of Handel’s late masterpiece...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
Written to celebrate the visit of Archduke Karl of Styria to Florence during the carnival season of 1625, La liberazione...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 04/2017
First performed in Stuttgart in 1913, Braunfels’s second opera centres on Till Ulenspiegel (or Eulenspiegel), the rebellious prankster of north...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2017
In this performance from the New York Met, a co-production with English National Opera, the setting is not Ceylon in...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2017
Aaron Copland’s Piano Sonata doesn’t exactly lack in first-rate recordings, yet there’s certainly room for Nathan Williamson’s commanding interpretation. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2017
The five volumes that comprise Steps marked an unequivocal return to composition for Peter Seabourne (b1960). The first and last...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2017
In 2006 the Swiss company Claves embarked on a collaboration with the Clara Haskil Competition to record all the piano...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2017
While Mahler was acknowledged as the conductor of his generation (Richard Strauss his closest rival), Busoni was the supreme pianist....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2017
For Vincent d’Indy, the near-forgotten Dessau court composer Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 96) was ‘the connecting link between Haydn and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Reger wrote four large-scale organ Fantasias and Fugues which were not based on chorale melodies. Ranging in playing length from...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2017
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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