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...
As in Anima Eterna’s previous releases, it is the woodwind and brass that immediately make a distinctive, mellow impact on...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014
In a letter to his daughter Nannerl, Leopold Mozart expressed his pleasure at the interplay of the various instruments after...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014
Ingrid Jacoby pairs two of Mozart’s most delectable concertos on her new disc, which is rounded out with the early...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2014
Tauno Marttinen (1912-2008) was born when Finland was still a Russian Imperial Grand Duchy; he died two months short of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
Among the generation of Polish composers who came to prominence at the turn of the 1970s, Zygmunt Krauze (b1938) has...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014
James Ehnes has released more than 30 discs since 2000, making a major mark in significant swathes of the concerto...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2014
Rolf Hind’s reputation as a pianist who ventures where others fear to tread is no less evident in his own...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2014
Wergo’s cycle of Henze’s symphonies is now done, and more complete than any rival with its inclusion of the composer’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2014
Daniel Barenboim first recorded Elgar’s great E flat Symphony with the London Philharmonic in 1972 and while the intervening four...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2014
How disarmingly unforced and personable the Czech Philharmonic sound in the Concerto’s introduction, Jiří Bĕlohlávek providing a quietly authoritative, glowingly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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