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 release follows on from two earlier Britten discs by the Emperor Quartet on BIS (A/10, 12/13), which together comprise...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2014
The playing of the Camerata Nordica on this disc of music from between the wars is, in a word, sensational....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014
Charlie Siem’s new CD takes its title from a song composed by Herbert Spencer (1877-1944), a name that had me...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2014
In a world with no shortage of Vivaldi recorder concerto discs, avoiding the routine is a must. Some fail, some...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2014
First, Ein Heldenleben, remarkable primarily for the forward momentum of Ingo Metzmacher’s performance, the overall excellence of the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
It goes without saying that this new LPO live disc enters a crowded field. What, then, justifies its release? For...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2014
Both pieces open on an auspicious pedal note but any notion that they were cut from the same cloth ends...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014
The definition and dynamism that Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra have been bringing to their cycle of Schubert...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014
As Marin Alsop has remarked, Prokofiev consistently bucked prevailing trends, whether political, musical or inter-personal, so it is appropriate that...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
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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