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...
Bent Sørensen has been on the Nordic connoisseur’s radar for nearly 30 years now, and although a fair amount of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2013
Nothing gave me greater pleasure when listening to these three CDs than Gerald English’s performance of the Britten Serenade, his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
Osmo Vänskä’s new Sibelius cycle continues with the First and Fourth, a pairing he evidently likes, as that is how...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2013
You expect quality from this source – and you get it here, in abundance. But words like ‘bloom’ and ‘beauty’...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2013
The organisers of the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra had the idea to mark their 2011 12 season...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2013
Mozart’s late clarinet masterpieces for Anton Stadler, the Concerto especially, have acquired autumnal, even valedictory associations. Yet those are not...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2013
The Fourth is a neo-classical symphony. So observes Riccardo Chailly in an accompanying feature which, unusually, reflects faithfully in words...
Reviewed by Quantrill in issue: 08/2013
A superb programme – and not only because it represents, in effect, a useful gathering of Janáček’s mature orchestral oeuvre....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2013
As an admitted non-specialist in the works of Louis Théodore Gouvy (1819 98), I am perhaps just the sort of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2013
Faced with the plethora of recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, I increasingly return to the original jazz-band scoring made by...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 08/2013
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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