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...
Wieniawski’s First Concerto, composed when he was just 17, shows the young violinist’s ambition to scale the heights of virtuosity...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2013
In 1964 Weinberg produced a follow-up to his Sixth Symphony that displays an even more sharply focused social conscience. The...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2013
In his booklet-note for this third volume of bassoon concertos, Sergio Azzolini wonders what or who it was that inspired...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2013
The comparative versions listed below of the purely orchestral works show how popular Turina’s colourfully scored compositions have become. It...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
The first of Tellefsen’s two piano concertos, completed in 1848 and first performed in 1852, confirms the composer as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2013
Soyoung Yoon gives meticulous, highly disciplined performances of both these concertos. It’s lovely violin-playing, stressing clarity and beauty of tone....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2013
With this disc of the two ‘named’ symphonies, Christian Zacharias and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra round off their survey of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2013
There is nothing unusual in the choice of works for this portmanteau CD of central Ravel but Emmanuel Krivine elicits...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2013
I had to smile when, at around 12'09" into the Orchestral Prelude to The Tempest of 1879, I noted how...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2013
If not the greatest of 20th-century Danish composers – Nielsen, Holmboe and Nørgård vie for that honour – Poul Rovsing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
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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