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...
Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is an object lesson in imaginative orchestration, a collaborative musical workout that challenges players, conductor and listeners...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
This searing live performance of the 13th Symphony was only its second in public and according to the Soviet authorities...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2014
Reviewing Gergiev’s previous recordings of these symphonies with the same (but since renamed) orchestra, I summed them up as frustratingly...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:
What blessed times these are for Schumannistas. Hard on the heels not only of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s compelling survey of the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014
Here are three substantial concertos from the pen of the Czech-Jewish composer Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942), the earliest being the second...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
Inquisitive disc-buyers will almost certainly alight on tracks 10 13 of this one. If the Trittico botticelliano and Gli uccelli...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014
There aren’t many classical works inspired by football – Benedict Mason’s opera Playing Away, Martinů’s Half-Time – but none hitherto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
Among Welsh composers of the younger generation, Guto Pryderi Puw (b1971) looks likely to achieve real prominence. This disc of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
Angela Hewitt continues her Mozart series with Hannu Lintu, switching from her Italian orchestra to the Canadian National Arts Centre...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014
Michael Schønwandt’s own programme notes are candid and concise: an assignment taken at four days’ notice to replace an ailing...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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