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...
All six Grandes Etudes de Paganini are a comparative rarity on disc. Gary Graffman’s 1959 traversal (Sony, 4/65) is brilliantly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
'Basso bailando’, or music for ‘dancing bass’, features the instrument in a programme where the emphasis is on music with...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014
Having recently reviewed Erik Bosgraaf’s recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in these pages (Brilliant Classics, 4/14), two more are...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2014
Even those who can’t get enough Tchaikovsky might not find a convincing case for these two might-have-beens: the Symphony No...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2014
Admirers of Leonard Bernstein have never had it so good, not least the many fans of his ‘tumultuous’ way with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014
Missing autographs raise problems. Three of these concertos survive only through manuscript copies printed or handwritten, No 4 the lucky...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2014
Truls Mørk signs in at the opening of Shostakovich’s First Concerto with a fine combination of swiftness and grit, helped...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2014
On the surface this Chandos release is to be welcomed for, if you had never encountered Scharwenka’s concertos before, you...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2014
‘I consider the score a complete failure.’ Thus Goffredo Petrassi on his sole Piano Concerto, begun in 1936 and premiered...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014
Commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic, David Matthews’s Seventh Symphony of 2008 09 is a richly inspired, urgently communicative 20-minute canvas...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014
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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