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...
As I write, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra are embarking on their fifth European tour. Their relationship has...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
There are those of us who are in seventh heaven when a new disc of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony drops through...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2014
I find myself rather more favourably disposed to this second instalment of Alan Gilbert’s Nielsen cycle than I was to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014
Iwan Müller was born in Tallinn, Estonia, 30 years after Mozart. In his youth he was a clarinet virtuoso in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2014
Judge the tenor of Nielsen’s Concerto with the first cadenza (4'37") in the opening movement played by Ib Erikson (1954)...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2014
As our leading Janáček scholar, John Tyrrell, points out in his valuable notes to this issue, a clue to the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/2014
In the six years since she first came to prominence, Helen Grime has gone on to write several further works...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014
‘Must never be performed’ is an obvious red rag to any musical bull and although Grieg’s youthful C minor Symphony...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
Good as it is in part, José Serebrier’s 2014 Bournemouth Symphony Dvořák Eighth can’t compare with the last version I...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2014
The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, which has been associated most recently on disc with its series of Rachmaninov symphonies coupled with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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