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...
Jón Leifs wrote songs throughout his career, works which ‘give unusually clear insights into the composer’, according to Árni Heimir...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2016
The Homilius revival marches on. Following a clutch of recordings from Carus, CPO gets in on the act with the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2016
There is not much cast-iron proof about the concert programmes performed at Vauxhall Gardens on any given night during the...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016
Founded in 2010, Aldeburgh Strings bring together advanced students for intensive periods of study. Their tutors are leading musicians from...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2016
Apart from the well-known Ciaconna and the Lamento della Regina d’Inghilterra recorded by Anne Sofie Von Otter some years ago...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 05/2016
The Bavarian Radio Chorus under Peter Dijkstra add the St John Passion to their discography of major Baroque oratorios. The...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016
It has been a while since a new account of the Trauer Ode appeared in its original form – as...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 05/2016
This is a companion to the CD of L’enfant et les sortilèges (12/15), recorded during the same week in January...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2016
Though released separately, these two one-act rarities formed a double-bill in concert performances at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper in 2012, and...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016
Co-written by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert, L’Aiglon was first performed in Monte Carlo in March 1937. An adaptation of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2016
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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