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...
This 52nd volume in Naïve’s intended complete survey of the manuscripts of Vivaldi’s music held in Turin’s National University Library...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue:
These concertos all date from the latter part of Vivaldi’s career and include several really fine works: RV281, with its...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
Bulgarian-born and resident in London for the past two decades, Dobrinka Tabakova (b1980) brings together several of the facets that...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2013
When he heard Herbert von Karajan’s 1963 Rite of Spring with the Berlin Philharmonic, Stravinsky – who made several offish...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
Vasily Petrenko’s Shostakovich cycle continues to garner critical plaudits and no one collecting the series need feel short-changed by this...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2013
Emmanuelle Bertrand is nothing if not a gutsy player. The close-up recording captures her every breath and every rasp of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2013
Best here is the sequence from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, which is generally well played, especially...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013
No doubt critics have been sharpening their pens in anticipation of Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninov concerto cycle, which is bound to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013
Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony may or may not be his finest orchestral work but its unique instrumental texture and curious, elusive...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2013
Penderecki reminds me of the late Kenny Ball, the British trumpeter who played jazz for people who weren’t remotely interested...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2013
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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