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...
There is no shortage of these Saint-Saëns works in the catalogue. Last year alone ZZT released all the music for...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2015
Niklaus von Flüe (‘Brother Klaus’, 1417 87) is the patron saint of Switzerland whose three recorded visions dominate the content...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
As pianist Kirill Gerstein discusses in this issue (see page 48), the new critical edition of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2015
The Lindberg-Pettersson project continues to go from strength to strength. After his revelatory recording of the Ninth Symphony (5/14), Lindberg...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
The concluding volume of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen cycle fully matches up to its predecessors. In fact, taking the first movements...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2015
Dialogue in sound, from start to finish…that’s what these memorable performances are about. Time and again in both symphonies you...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
Perform K449 as conceived with oboes and horns – not just for strings as Mozart also sanctioned – and the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
Here we have something very special, and a good deal more than ‘just another Mahler Ninth’. ‘Just another Mahler Ninth’!...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
With this release – actually a reissue of a Smekkleysa disc from 2009 – BIS finally completes its survey of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
Leonard Elschenbroich pulls together this unusual programme of Soviet fare with his own intelligent and provocative booklet-note. He portrays Dmitry...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2015
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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