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...
The Concerto in F major, K459, played on the harp! Is it possible? The last of the six (Nos 14-19)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2013
No one could accuse Palle Mikkelborg of doing things by halves and, while the trumpeter admits to this being his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013
This disc is issued as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, who died earlier this...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
With a portfolio that includes collaborations with Torsten Rasch on the epic song-cycle Mein Herz brennt, industrial metal band Rammstein...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013
This is an important disc, and not just for bringing to view the rushed, original version of the finale of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2013
As formidably accomplished a reading of the Elgar as one would expect from such high-class performers. Jean-Guihen Queyras is a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
Søren Nils Eichberg is composer-in-residence with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the first to hold the post. That he is...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2013
Readers who, like me, grew up with the great Miloš Sádlo’s Supraphon recording of Dvořák’s early, unorchestrated A major Concerto...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
Assiduous followers of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series may well know the name Alexander Dreyschock (1818-69), as he featured back...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2013
Jaakko Kuusisto may be one of his generation’s leading violin virtuosos but he features here as composer and conductor, leaving...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2013
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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