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...
It is over 40 years since the last recording of Bliss’s choral symphony Morning Heroes, written in 1930 as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2015
That Biber’s massive 54-part Missa Salisburgensis of 1682 was for a long time carelessly attributed to Orazio Benevoli and dated...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2015
With all the trappings of secular commissions – including additional remuneration and an opportunity for luxuriant scoring – Bach wrote...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
The husband-and-wife duo of Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson commence this one piano/four hand programme with Brahms’s singerless edition of...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2015
This set was to have been a birthday present for the great Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who would have been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
Young Armenian pianist Varduhi Yeritsyan is a more than eloquent advocate for Scriabin, powerful and lucid even in the composer’s...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015
Befitting its extraordinary subject, Anne-Kathrin Peitz and Youlian Tabakov’s brilliant film about the French composer and hardline agent provocateur Erik...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2015
Julius Reubke was a remarkable talent whose life was cut tragically sort: he died in 1858 aged just 24. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
Recalling in particular Stefan Vladar’s fine early recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Sony, 4/92), I turned to the radically different...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2015
Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words may have suffered from their association with the Victorian parlour (just as his oratorios became indelibly...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2015
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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