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 Christoph Schlüren points out in his informative booklet-note, orchestral music occupies a limited place within Dallapiccola’s output – making...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014
The single extant piano concerto of Clementi is this C major Concerto, and it survives only in a copy in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
Ivor Bolton makes a convincingly grand case for Bruckner’s First as a work of innovative maturity, with no less experience...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2014
Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2014
Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a more or less exemplary account of Beethoven’s Second Symphony. The outer movements are swift-moving...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2014
Debussy’s extraordinary work used to be found in collections of chamber music by his contemporaries and immediate successors. Ravel, Guy...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2014
The subtitle suggests a spanning of ‘five centuries’; I make it six, perhaps even seven. Be that as it may,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2014
Here is a worthwhile survey of string trios that are more usually heard as part of composer compilations. The Ensemble...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2014
The belated recognition of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) as a figure of importance tailed off once the limited extent of her...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2014
The title ‘1828’ refers to Schubert’s final and astoundingly productive year, which brought forth the three duets and solo sonata...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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