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...
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Robin Ticciati have already demonstrated their glowing credentials in Berlioz with last year’s release of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2013
Ever since New York Times critic Harold Schonberg panned the Yellow River Concerto in 1973 as a ‘rehash of Rachmaninov,...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 05/2012
The international violin competition in Brussels, founded as a result of the friendship between Ysaÿe and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012
Toronto-born Peter Oundjian (a prize-winning pupil of Manoug Parikian and former first violinist of the Tokyo String Quartet) took over...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2012
The languid opening bassoon solo, which in this instance more evokes a humid rainforest than an unforgiving patch of pagan...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012
A depiction of Winter that opens Symphony No 9 probably exemplifies why Beethoven said of Spohr, ‘He is too rich...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
Moscow-born Andrei Korobeinikov, only in his mid-20s, offers highly competitive accounts of the two Shostakovich concertos. Colourful, agile, sensitive, imaginative...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2012
No composer-conductor is more sensitive than Pierre Boulez to the divergent responses to Wagner’s Tristan that can be traced in...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2012
The Rhapsody kicks off at a real allegro vivace, full of intent and purpose but with less sense of an...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Andrea Bacchetti is a pianist possessed of poise and elegance, attributes mirrored by the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2012
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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