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...
It was brave of Weilerstein to sandwich Carter between Elgar and Bruch, but there are connections with Barenboim. He gave...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2013
Rob Cowan rightly heaped praise upon this team’s two previous Dvořák symphony anthologies (8/12 and 11/12) and now it’s my...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013
As with José Serebrier’s and Marin Alsop’s versions of the Sixth Symphony, Gerard Schwarz observes the important first-movement exposition repeat....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013
Anima Eterna’s ‘instruments of the period’ policy has come a long way since those early days in the 1980s when...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2013
Given the number of recordings of Britten’s Cello Symphony already out there, it is good that these latest two should...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 02/2013
Hard to believe, I know, but the high-profile September 1971 Edinburgh Festival concert from which the contents of this DVD...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2013
‘He is a most sympathetic conductor, never clever or perfunctory, never self-conscious…it’s all there, GENUINE, enough of it for other...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2013
It would be difficult to imagine two Serenades that inhabit such utterly different worlds, the First mostly carefree and ebullient,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2013
‘A gross enormity, an immense wounded snake unwilling to die, but writhing in its last agonies,’ said a critic of...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2013
There are three hits here on one CD. The Cello Sonata dates from 1932, when Barber was a student at...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 02/2013
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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