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...
Four Legends (from the Kalevala), Lemminkäinen Suite, Lemminkäinen Legends – none of the popular titles for this tetralogy better Sibelius’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2014
I was at The Bridgewater Hall last October for the performance captured here on disc (the recording makes use of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014
It was an inspired idea to couple two great Sixth Symphonies that inhabit, respectively, the 19th and 20th centuries, both...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
Numerous composers (American and otherwise) have penned tributes to those who died as a result of 9/11, though Daniel Schnyder...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2014
There is a gulf of some 55 years between Nørgård’s first and latest symphonies. The one nails its colours to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2014
Brüggen mirrors Mozart’s love of clarinets in the balance at the beginning of No 39, the reverberation of Rotterdam’s De...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 08/2014
In the booklet accompanying this issue, Arabella Steinbacher writes: ‘These concertos have been with me since early childhood…I feel they...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
The last version of Mendelssohn’s First that I listened to featured Thomas Fey and the Heidelberg Symphony (Hänssler), a rugged,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
Riccardo Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and his soloist, Israeli pianist Saleem Ashkar, give us an ideal, new-minted view of Mendelssohn....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2014
Admirers of Neeme Järvi’s recordings of the Tchaikovsky ballets with the Bergen Philharmonic will know that he is just the...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2014
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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