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 Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) was one of music’s great amateurs. An academic classicist by profession, he was self-taught...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
Although it was overshadowed by the furore surrounding the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring a fortnight later, Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2016
‘A clarinet can sound as hysterical as – pardon me – a woman.’ Irmlind Capelle’s booklet-note quotes Carl Nielsen’s provocative...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
Less is more, as the saying goes. It’s a paradox that Chaya Czernowin (b1957) pushes to the hilt here, crafting...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2016
Although the 1887 version of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony is generally regarded as being inferior to the revision that appeared in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2016
Given their long history of Bruckner performances under principal conductors such as Hausegger, Kabasta, Celibidache and Thielemann, the Munich Philharmonic’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2016
Search for a composer connecting George Benjamin to Tristan Murail, and look no further than Olivier Messiaen, who taught the...
Reviewed in issue 11/2016
The milieu into which George Antheil introduced his mid 1920s Ballet mécanique and A Jazz Symphony was already reverberating with...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2016
Since it opened in January 2014, the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse has hosted almost as much music as theatre, establishing...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016
Founded in 1815, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society Chorus is the oldest still-extant performing arts organisation in America. For their...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2016
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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