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...
The trend towards casting Berlioz with lighter voices, often with singers more seasoned in chronologically earlier repertoire, takes a fruitful...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2014
Where Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is concerned, only the big beasts of the musical jungle need apply. Georg Solti was one...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014
In my experience there are only two conductors who could have delivered these pungent, characterful and lovingly played performances, Pablo...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
In this latest collection of RCO commissions or co-commissions, the two longest works – by Kaija Saariaho and Detlev Glanert...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2014
It’s always rewarding to encounter a musician of the calibre and risk-taking flair of Philippe Graffin. Rest assured, there are...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
This partnership’s debut recording of French repertoire for Pentatone (7/14) left a most favourable impression, which is now enhanced further...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
This is fun, primarily because of a touch of ‘premature congratulation’ towards the end of Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. The...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
On the face of it, this conspectus of keyboard works by JS Bach’s most talented sons should help the uninitiated...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014
The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Borusan is the group of companies that sponsored it) has in its 15 years of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014
François-Xavier Roth and his highly responsive cohorts give us a strikingly fresh-faced, wonderfully vibrant Petrushka in its original 1911 guise,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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