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...
Here is the standard version of the Fourth which Bruckner made at his own urge after completing the Fifth and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2015
The Britten Sinfonia’s latest offering launches with a deeply understanding performance of Vaughan Williams’s Oboe Concerto from Nicholas Daniel. It...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015
The swiftly pulsing violas and cellos that open Riccardo Chailly’s Gewandhaus Orchestra account of the First Serenade contradict what many...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015
Jean-Luc Tingaud’s generous Bizet selection kicks off with two rarities: both the imposing Marche funèbre in B minor from 1860...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2015
In many ways the Britten and Barber piano concertos make an attractive fit, sharing a similar bittersweet lyricism, though Britten...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 05/2015
The music of the Catalan-American composer Leonardo Balada has been well served by Naxos; this is the fifth recording of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2015
CPE Bach’s two sets of ‘Hamburg’ symphonies from the 1770s have long been famous for pushing the contemporary musical language...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2015
Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen was always one of Winter & Winter’s prized house-composers, and this latest instalment in the label’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
All that is unusual and unexpected about this recording is encapsulated in the second movement of the First Sonata, which...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
The latest release from this highly praised duo works beautifully on several levels. First, the programme consists entirely of works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2015
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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