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...
This is the second release in Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, opening with the modernistic Second (1924 25) in a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
In the Norris household, and doubtless in many others, Mozart’s horn concertos = Dennis Brain with the Philharmonia Orchestra and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
When Anders Koppel (b1947) was part of the rock band Savage Rose I doubt he – or anyone else –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
To those of us who know the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) chiefly though his organ music (the Sonata eroica...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
By no means mainstream repertoire, Gounod’s two completed symphonies nevertheless fully merit the finesse and joie de vivre that these...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
If Philip Glass’s Symphony No 2 is his ‘Beethoven’ symphony (its ending almost quotes the famous theme from Beethoven’s Fifth),...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015
Louis Glass (1864-1936) was a close contemporary of his fellow countryman Carl Nielsen and, like the slightly better-known Rued Langgaard,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
Born in Liverpool in 1933, David Ellis was a prize-winning composition student of Thomas Pitfield at Manchester’s Royal College of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
The comparative rarity here is the Violin Concerto, which shows Vaughan Williams toying with fashionable 1920s neo-classicism. His reference point...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
Daniel Müller-Schott’s discography already includes many peaks of the cello repertoire, so the addition of the Dvořák Concerto fills a...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce 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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