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...
Vítĕzslav Novák (1870-1949) is a Czech composer little known to me but one with a richly lyrical melodic vein and...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2013
For his concerto debut disc, the fast-rising young Norwegian pianist has alighted on two famous Mozart concertos of 1785, when...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2013
Brautigam’s sinuous reading of K453, which makes much of Mozart’s long, lolloping lines, has elegance to spare. But he doesn’t...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2013
Some may find this an odd choice of project to launch the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s own label. The tenure of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/1989
If Sibelius remains the pre-eminent Finnish symphonist, the benchmark indeed for all would-be 20th- and 21st-century symphonists, later compatriots –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2013
Conceived in the 1870s for the virtuosity and personality of Pablo de Sarasate, Edouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole finds another dynamic...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2013
Ivan Karabits (1945-2002), father of Kirill, the conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, was a major figure in Ukraine as...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2013
The Catalan composer Juli Garreta (1875-1925) had already made a name for himself as a master of the sardana (a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013
This was my first encounter with Toronto-born Catherine Manoukian. A private pupil of the late Dorothy DeLay, she’s a commanding...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2013
Should absolute music be heard and not seen? Whether it be the presence of a Martin Freeman lookalike in the...
Reviewed by David Gutman 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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