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...
Did Joseph II say to Mozart ‘There are simply too many notes’? Or was this dramatic licence from Peter Schaffer?...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2013
Moeran conceived the wistfully lyrical Cello Concerto (arguably his supreme achievement) in 1945 for his wife, the Irish cellist Peers...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2013
Mendelssohn’s Octet can present a problem of balance should the players not be careful enough about dynamic levels, and if...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
Sony gives Martin Stadtfeld more prominent billing than the composer, whom they somewhat perversely refer to by his baptismal name...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2013
Like all great musicians, Vladimir Jurowski trusts his own instincts implicitly, and on the whole I do, too. But there...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2013
Part new release, part reissue, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Lutosπawski symphony cycle provides a refined but often exciting take on an impressive...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2013
The performance of Symphonie espagnole is billed as departing from the way it’s generally played in the direction of being...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 06/2013
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s invaluable survey of d’Indy’s orchestral scores here reaches Vol 5 and one of those few works...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013
Pedestrian collaboration hampers Jian Wang in most of the First Concerto. Muhai Tang binds the music to the bar-line; and...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2013
When John-Edward Kelly first heard the name of Anders Eliasson – via another composer featured here, Sven-David Sandström – it...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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