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...
Hyperion’s ‘The Romantic Piano Concerto’ celebrates is 58th issue with these concertos including a first recording of Pixis’s Concertino in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2012
This Blu-ray disc is experimental, made with at least half an eye on techniques of recording. Living literally up to...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
Notwithstanding the impact of Danish orchestral visits to the UK in the 1950s and of Robert Simpson’s classic book Carl...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2012
The misnamed Jeunehomme Concerto (we now know that Mozart wrote it for a Mlle Jenamy) was one of the outstanding...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2012
The light and genial Little Suite of 1950 launches this Lutosławski CD, the character of the piece defined by the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
This is the now the third recording of the Concerto, following the 1969 premiere release (originally Harvest, subsequently on DVD)...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2012
An interview in the booklet for this disc takes a long time telling us why Alison Balsom has picked up...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2012
This is the fourth issue in the series of discs from Danacord covering Delius’s works with orchestra, respectively Danish, Norwegian...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2012
Given that Guido Cantelli’s career was cut tragically short by an air crash in 1956 (he was just 36 when...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2012
Corelli’s reputation as one of the presiding geniuses of the early Baroque is extraordinary for being based on such a...
Reviewed in issue 07/2014
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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