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...
Would it be fanciful to suggest that there’s something distinctly Netherlandish about this interpretation of Brahms’s D major Serenade? Jan...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2016
This DVD preserves highlights of a pair of concerts featuring András Schiff during last year’s Mozartwoche at the Mozarteum Foundation...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016
It is something of an irony that Goethe conceived his five-act prose tragedy Egmont to include music but provided none,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
Here is Beethoven, Viennese Beethoven, under a conductor who remained impervious to all fads and fashions, save those of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2016
This interesting programme offers a revealing glimpse at how the Baroque concerto grosso form, or something very like it, was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
This is an unusual Bach coupling, but to give solo spotlights to both the founding members of Ausonia seems as...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
As a general rule it’s a bad idea to make sweeping generalisations in print, even if all your internal instincts...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
Here are four sonatas by four Brazilian composers whose careers span three generations. With one arguable exception, their work is...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
Eighteenth-century harpsichord music by British composers seldom gets much attention compared to German and French ones and Scarlatti, so although...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2016
During the 1940s, the Spanish pianist of Basque ancestry José Iturbi made no fewer than nine Hollywood films, usually playing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2016
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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