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...
This beautifully prepared account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony was the Philharmonia’s contribution to a complete cycle of the composer’s symphonies...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2015
Given the immediacy of its musical invention and its modest dimensions, the relative neglect of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony is difficult...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW2015
Following her fine performances of the Second Concerto and the Scottish Fantasy (10/14), Antje Weithaas turns her attention to the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: AW2015
There are a number of recurring themes in Bernstein’s symphonic work (indeed his works for the stage) and the most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2015
The high claims frequently made for Haydn’s Mannheim-born contemporary Franz Ignaz Beck (dubbed by the New Oxford History of Music...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015
The seven concertos for harpsichord, alongside the five multiple works for two to four ‘cembali’, survive as transcriptions of original...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2015
Here is another attractive offering in CPO’s valuable Andriessen survey that pairs a symphony with shorter orchestral works: shorter, but...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015
In the search for big voiced singers for the Italian repertoire, we are getting used to looking east to the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: AW2015
Solti’s Prom concert of the final act of the Ring was actually the first time he had conducted that part...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015
At the 2014 festival, Glyndebourne’s British-made and -conducted Traviata was generally damned with faint praise for Tom Cairns’s staging, if...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015
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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