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...
We have an inbuilt expectation these days for precisioned, sonically impressive Mahler – and this Sixth is no exception. But...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2014
These two fine Honegger symphonies make for an invigorating coupling, the gritty and muscular Second for strings and trumpet from...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
‘Nobody cares what I have done; in Paris people think only of themselves and of the present…More and more I...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2014
Now holding posts in Tokyo, Geneva and Monte Carlo, 30 year-old Kazuki Yamada has perhaps been too busy to return...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
More gaps in the catalogue valiantly plugged by Cameo Classics. Angela Brownridge has already proved an assiduous champion of her...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2014
The title’s stretching it a bit with the inclusion of Ernst Widmer, who became a naturalised Brazilian at the age...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
A film of a symphony in live performance filmed just three years after an audio recording of the same piece...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2014
Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2014
Guro Kleven Hagen, at 20 years old, already plays with great assurance and true artistry. Her account of the Prokofiev...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2014
Mahler, Mitropoulos and Bernstein seeded the idea, and now the Norwegian violinist and conductor Terje Tønnesen allows it to blossom...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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