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...
It’s interesting that many harpsichordists purport to approach Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with scholarly authority, yet still come up with disparate...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2015
Piazzolla must be the most-arranged composer of recent times, a tribute to his compositions’ inherent strength as much as to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
Here are two distinguished new versions of Walton’s still underestimated Cello Concerto. Both display heaps of eloquence and perceptive artistry...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
This is the fourth recording of Villa-Lobos’s enormous, magnificent, overblown, genre-melding Tenth Symphony (1952) I know of (those by Gisele...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
Faced with the unusual commission for a large-scale symphonic work for orchestra and big band, Estonia’s leading symphonist decided to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
Dennis Russell Davies doesn’t give us fast-lane Stravinsky. The Introduction to ‘The Adoration of the Earth’ approximates a slowly evolving...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
Anna Netrebko gets star billing here together with a front-cover photo of her walking along a snow-strewn path and swathed...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
Having recorded the complete symphonies of both Haydn (Sony) and Bruckner (Arte Nova), Dennis Russell Davies is well placed to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
The first of Ruders’s Nightshade Trilogy was composed in 1986 for the London-based Capricorn Ensemble, who here give it a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
During his years with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra from 2005 to 2012, Stéphane Denève devoted much of his recording...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
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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