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...
Benjamin Grosvenor is not only the first British pianist to be signed by Decca since the days of Clifford Curzon,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011
In wishing Martha Argerich a happy 70th birthday on a recent blog, Stephen Hough, referring to a film clip of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011
It is nearly 40 years since EMI released its classic recording of Guillaume Tell, Rossini’s epic final opera; every note...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2011
The fact that the classic impulse vies with the Romantic throughout Beethoven’s nine symphonies presents a perennial problem to would-be...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: A/2011
Lost in transcription? Most definitely; but let’s be gracious towards Jean-Baptiste Cimador (1761-1805) who, with the best of intentions, arranged...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: AW/2011
Lang Lang’s contribution to the composer’s bicentenary is a “those you love” programme spiced with more ambitious and imaginative choices....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2011
Those of us who have thrilled to Dudamel with his Simón Bolívar orchestra in concert have to take a little...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW/2011
For the uncontrived and unalloyed delights of Bach’s oboe-writing, this is a recital of a rare questing elegance. While our...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW/2011
The opus number, like the booklet-note, is misleading: dating from two years before Mendelssohn’s final, anguished Quartet, Op 80, the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW/2011
With cycles on CPO, Chandos, Neos and now Toccata Classics, Mieczysław Weinberg’s time has certainly come. It’s customary for reviewers...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2011
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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