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...
Manfred Honeck’s handling of the Eighth Symphony’s opening phrases is rapturously beautiful, the cellos truly espressivo, the initial bird-like entry...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
To have arrived so soon at the end of this journey seems almost a pity, for the company has been...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2014
Appearances can be deceptive, so be advised that this is not yet another version of the 1610 Vespers. These proceedings...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW2014
Nothing becomes Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy more than those opening chords on sombre wind band that seem to echo the twilight...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2014
Mozart’s two piano quartets leave you wanting more in that medium, and these chamber-size versions of two 1782 piano concertos...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Interesting that Zemlinsky’s First Quartet of 1896 takes on the mantle of Brahms, much as Schoenberg’s first completed D major...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
Much has been made of Vittorio Grigòlo’s background, including early years in in the choir of the Sistine Chapel and...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2014
The inexorable rise of Handelian opera seria has exploded the old-fashioned polemic that formerly exalted Gluck as a righteous reformer...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2014
In this Wigmore Hall recital, Jonathan Biss sets out to demonstrate how much influence Schumann had on Janáček. He does...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014
Juanjo Mena’s 2012 Turangalîla-Symphonie for Hyperion felt like the dawning of a new Messiaenic age. As I said in my...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2014
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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