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...
Hard on the heels of Conducting the Brahms Symphonies: from Brahms to Boult, the late Christopher Dyment’s study of the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2016
While we have the Italians to thank for first spotting the cello’s potential as a solo instrument, by the middle...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2016
Charm and elegance are the words that invariably come to mind when Auber is mentioned, though there is, of course,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016
After the success/notoriety of his Sixth Symphony in 1928, only in 1941 42 did Atterberg return to the form. Much...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2016
Samuel Adler (b1928) is a very American symphonist. He approaches the form, and orchestral writing in general, with a taut...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 08/2016
La rondine is often dismissed (not least by me) as one of Puccini’s weaker operas, a sort of poor hybrid...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016
Just a couple of months ago, Richard Fairman welcomed Benjamin Appl’s first fully fledged recital disc, a collection of Heine...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
This is an essential disc not only for admirers of Jonathan Harvey’s work in general but for all those interested...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2016
This is a red-letter day: at last we have uniform and sensible recordings of the four great cantus firmus Masses...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2016
Lock the doors, close the curtains and turn the lights down before putting this disc on. Here is music for...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 07/2016
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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