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...
Although Richard Causton provides extensive and interesting programme notes to enhance one’s appreciation and understanding of the orchestral and chamber...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
Rarities galore jostle for attention on these anthologies. Vol 1 launches in propitious fashion with the tone-poem Lamia by Handsworth-born...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2014
There are few composers of such profound sincerity and absorbing interest as Ernest Bloch. He said that he had no...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2014
Interesting that the symphony included here that is played by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Claudio Abbado recorded with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2014
This issue faces strong competition from the Gramophone Award-winning recording of the same two works by Isabelle Faust, with Abbado...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2014
The coupling of Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Schumann’s epic Fantasie is, to say the least, ambitious. The ancient Greeks would...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014
Still very much with us at the age of 86, Leon Fleisher made these Cologne recordings midway between his winning...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 06/2014
Julia Zilberquit’s Bach concerto cycle for Musical Heritage Society gains a new lease of catalogue life on Warner Classics. The...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
Bravo to the young American violinist Chad Hoopes for choosing such an unusual coupling of concertos for his debut CD....
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
This is a promising sign, not only from the Italian countertenor Raffaele Pé but also the recently founded band Spiritato!,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2014
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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