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...
ECM’s fourth release devoted to Tigran Mansurian (75 this year) focuses on his concertante music for string orchestra from the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2014
Where many composers are wary of revealing the detailed programmes behind their works, Jukka Linkola (b1955) must be unique in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
Paul Kletzki enjoyed a burgeoning career as a composer and conductor in 1920s Berlin. His 1928 Violin Concerto was widely...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014
A long sustained note, passing imperceptibly to the horn around 1'20", and surrounded by distant percussion, puts us firmly in...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2014
Why a cycle of Karl Amadeus Hartmann symphonies led by six different conductors? Challenge Classics reveals surprisingly little about the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2014
There have now been something near 20 recordings of Ilya Muromets, a symphony once popular largely through Stokowski’s championship of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 06/2014
Time was there were no Gál symphonies in the catalogue (indeed, precious little of his music at all), yet with...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2014
In the case of the Eighth Symphony, initial impressions are wholly favourable and for the most part firmly substantiated by...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
Pablo Ferrández launches his performance of the Schumann Cello Concerto with an unusual degree of diffidence and introspection. On first...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
Although he has been well served on disc, this is the first release on a ‘major’ label devoted to Pascal...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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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