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...
Welcome to the third volume of the music of Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, the second...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023
This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023
These releases of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony offer a fascinating contrast, BIS’s recording giving us the well-known second version of the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2023
This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023
Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023
The Teatro Sant’Angelo was the principal theatre in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated, as both composer and manager. It...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023
Following Olimpie (7/19), this is Bru Zane’s second recording of an opera by Spontini. La Vestale reached the stage of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023
Two Toscas, two very different shows – and two valuable records of projects giving Puccini a spring clean. In Milan,...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2023
Mercadante’s Il proscritto was first performed in Naples, in 1842. Dividing opinion at the time (Mercadante was accused of being...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2023
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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