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...
Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) clings to the footnotes of musical history. A child prodigy (at his Frankfurt debut he was the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
This is my third review of work by Henri Dutilleux in as many months, implying a certain premature zeal on...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
While things may have moved on after modernism, writing absolute music as anti-progressive and non-ironic as this still takes guts....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
El Salón México wears well. It made a vivid impression at the ISCM Festival in London in 1938 and brought...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2016
One couldn’t help wondering, when Jack Liebeck launched his exploration of Bruch’s violin works last year, why he began with...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016
In the heyday of George Szell’s tenure as its chief conductor, The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2016
On record at least, Brahms’s two piano concertos have long been a largely male preserve. Not so the Violin Concerto,...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2016
It’s unusual, if not unwelcome, to find a company including a cartoon of one of its conductors in a CD...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2016
Bach’s eldest son, for whom the weight of his father’s inheritance – emotionally and otherwise – contributed to his dispersing...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 01/2016
The only work of Riccardo Zandonai’s to maintain a toehold in the repertory, Francesca da Rimini is one of the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2016
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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