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 benchmark recording of Hindemith’s Violin Concerto remains Oistrakh’s with the composer from 1962, now 50 years old but still...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2013
‘Discovery’ is an appropriate CD label for this pair of works by Christopher Gunning. The composer tells us in the...
Reviewed by IMarch in issue: 09/2013
The first two discs in this ‘Complete Symphonic Works’ series (10/11, 11/11) were outstanding. This third is wholly exceptional. The...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
You suspect, in the great scheme of music, orchestral musicians would rather play nearly anything else than a 50-minute piece...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2013
Throughout her long and distinguished, if insufficiently acknowledged career, Valerie Tryon has remained true to her own lights. Virtuoso teasers...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2013
No doubt about it, Sakari Oramo is an Elgarian of strong instinct, and this abundantly characterful, cannily paced and deeply...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2013
The booklet for this, the 60th volume of Hyperion’s landmark series, quotes an entry from Dubois’s diary just two years...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
Many a disc of Debussy’s La mer has popped through the letterbox over the past few years but this version...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
Stunned silence greets the conclusion of Christian Thielemann’s inaugural concert as principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. With the closing...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2013
Should concert DVDs attempt to faithfully represent the live experience? Or should directors exploit film as a medium to illustrate...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2013
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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