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...
Arguably one of the best-conceived Romantic clarinet concertos, Stanford’s Clarinet Concerto of 1902 has now had a fair number of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2013
The four CDs come in a slip-case the size and thickness of the average paperback measuring about 8"x5" in old...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2013
Weber’s only symphonies were knocked off at great speed – with quasi-Mozartian fluency of melody, orchestration and pulse (and a...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Just what the world needs, another cycle of Villa-Lobos symphonies? Well, one thing becomes clear from the get-go – Carl...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 01/2013
Given the conspicuous success of John Wilson’s world premiere recording of the imposing Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue (6/10), it...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2013
Following their intensely refreshing, at times revelatory forays into Schubert, Schumann and Bruckner, Thomas Dausgaard and his exemplary Swedish CO...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2013
This is a good, practical interpretation of The Sleeping Beauty. The playing by the Bergen Philharmonic is strong and spirited;...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2013
A dramatic case of fire and ice if ever there was one. The São Paulo SO, sagely conducted by Frank...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2013
If your ideal of musical Finnishness has to match the austerity and intensity of Tapiola, Sibelius’s final tone-poem, then the...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2013
Though Miklós Rózsa had a cosmopolitan career, studying in Leipzig and living in Paris and London before becoming one of...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 01/2013
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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