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...
Listening to the music of Stephen Gardner prompted an inevitable comparison with the late Steve Martland, of whom Gardner (b1958)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2013
This is the third of a projected series of four discs setting the symphonies of Schumann alongside those of Hans...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013
German father, American mother, born in Paris, naturalised British (he lived most of his life in London), Baron Frédéric d’Erlanger...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013
This is the second disc of this unlikely coupling to come my way in the past two years. Martin Helmchen...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2013
Here’s another irresistible helping of Sir Georg Solti and his dazzling Chicagoans from the BBC archives, this time a colour...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013
Good news: Vol 3 in Chandos’s Casella series effortlessly maintains the exalted artistic and technical standards of both its predecessors...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013
Britten’s own recording of his Violin Concerto with Mark Lubotsky towers over the field but that has not stopped others...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2013
‘Johannes Brahms 1874-1951’ reads the back cover, suggesting a sloppiness that, happily, is not reflected either in the cultured response...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2013
It has long struck me that Beethoven’s Fourth and Seventh Symphonies make an ideal coupling. Though they cross the traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 08/2013
Mahler has been the mainstay of the San Francisco Symphony’s releases on its own label and this performance of Beethoven’s...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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