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...
Niels Marthinsen’s Snapshot Symphony (2009) follows its predecessor, Monster (1995, 10/06), by 14 years and equal blithe disregard for Classical...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2012
Personally, I have never been swept away by Barenboim’s Liszt. While I stand in awe of his accomplishments as a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Friedrich (Frédéric) Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785-1849) is remembered – if at all – as the figure who famously offered to...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2012
Despite the implausible name of the booklet writer, C Content, I am not at all happy with the rudimentary liner-notes...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Haydn’s concertos do not count among his most popular works and it’s perhaps not difficult to see why. Composed during...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012
Familiar feelings of anticipation and trepidation on unwrapping the latest recording from Thomas Fey quickly turned to dread on remembering...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2012
Sofia Gubaidulina’s music ranges wide, often beyond conventional instruments and instrumental groupings, and plunges deep, both technically and into ideas...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2012
If we have to have yet another recording of Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, there are things to admire in this one....
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 05/2012
As Chandos’s informative and evocative notes tell us, we have Grieg (an unlikely source, though, like Falla, a devoted nationalist)...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012
Dvořák wrote his masterly Cello Concerto in 1894-95, at the end of his American period, during which he was director...
Reviewed by Ivan March 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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