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...
Those of us who remember John Williams’s frequent collaborations with the Chilean group Inti-Illimani will recall the energy and obvious...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2015
This latest Nimbus...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2015
The sixth volume of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Cello Concerto’ series lights upon two works by the celebrated 19th-century Belgian violinist Henri...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015
The association between Augusta Read Thomas and Nimbus reaches a fourth volume devoted largely to her music for strings. The...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
Less than a year since the release of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO recording of Also sprach Zarathustra (Orfeo, 7/14; Philip Clark’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015
Norwegian composer, conductor and organist Leif Solberg celebrated his 100th birthday on November 18 last year and this CD, recorded...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
Disappointing. Part of the problem here is the chilly ambience of BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff and the fact that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015
With its twin themes of death and resistance, Shostakovich’s symphony of sorrowful songs is as potent and pithy and defiant...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015
Writing for the Warner Icon box of Berglund’s EMI recordings, David Nice remembers the ‘awful numbness’ of the Eighth Symphony’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015
Isabelle Faust brings her flawless technique and peerless intelligent musicianship to two works from a period during which Schumann’s sanity...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2015
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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