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...
Bracing and genial by turns, I guess you might characterise these symphonies as Nielsen’s most companionable. The first and second...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2015
Recordings of Mozart’s orchestral serenades are still relatively uncommon, so this disc of two is welcome. Mozart composed them during...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2015
‘There is little point in recording Mozart’s most popular concertos for the hundredth time,’ the conductor Heribert Beissel disarmingly claims...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2015
‘Youthful music of yearning…imbued with an innocent utopianism, a faith in perfectability, beauty, and sensual fulfilment’ was Mozart biographer Maynard...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015
Reviewing Jan Willem de Vriend’s 2011/12 recording of Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony I concluded that, ‘for a fresh, immediate statement that...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2015
It’s perhaps not surprising that Yevgeny Sudbin should be drawn to Nikolai Medtner: both are Russian-born, both ended up in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
Readers with long memories may recall that the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra was responsible for the first-ever digital Mahler symphony...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2015
Well established as a composer for film and television, Malcolm Lindsay is increasingly becoming known for his concert output –...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
Of Ligeti’s five concertos, the earliest is for cello, from 1966. It’s also his least known, perhaps because the solo...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015
Whenever a new recording of the Violin Concerto by Korngold comes up for review, and they’ve been coming thick and...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards 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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