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...
For those unfamiliar with John Casken’s music, he writes in a manifestly 21st-century style, incorporating elements of expressionism and lyrical...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2014
Weinberg’s Violin Concerto was composed in 1959, around the time of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No 1. Its sturdy, unrelenting first...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2014
Winner of the 2009 Besançon Competition, Kazuki Yamada was just 23 when he was appointed the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2014
Fazil Say, a pianist with a maverick reputation, now takes Beethoven by storm and the result, while unsettling for those...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 07/2014
After settling in Vienna, heedless of his father’s dire warning, Mozart took every opportunity of impressing the sceptical Leopold with...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2014
This year’s winner of the Strangest Cover Photo Award goes to Neos: six bemused people sit in a section of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2014
From the quality of her voice, one would guess that the soprano Dinara Alieva came from Spain or Italy, but...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 07/2014
Almost everything about this disc is inevitable. A real-life couple, Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello share much of the same...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014
The circumstances of the recording aren’t promising: a one-off concert with an up-and-coming soprano singing an impressive though exhausting range...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2014
The plot of L’incoronazione di Dario (1717) revolves around three rival claimants to the throne of Persia. The shrewd lord...
Reviewed by David Vickers 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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