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...
When it comes to conducting Dvořák, José Serebrier isn’t afraid to get mud on his boots: he’s out there in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012
If you can take the opening of the third-movement Adagio, you’ll likely appreciate the rest. Up swoop the strings, then...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012
In reviewing Mario Venzago’s coupling of Bruckner’s Fourth and Seventh symphonies (11/11), I found the brightened textures revealing and not...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2012
The way in which Robin Ticciati paces the Symphonie fantastique lends it powerful impetus. Keeping his big guns in reserve,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2012
Renderings of Rendering (by Chailly and Eschenbach, among others) have emphasised the dislocation and distance between Schubert and Berio. Unfamiliarity...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2012
The opening is transparent, the triplet semiquavers on second violins and cellos pianissimo but definite. Rhythmic snatches from first violins...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2012
The idea of pairing the Beethoven Concerto with Fritz Kreisler’s music is a fine one; Kreisler was, after all, a...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 05/2012
The London Sinfonietta’s new association with Signum Classics continues with the first recording of Thomas Adès’s In Seven Days. Described...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 05/2012
Di Xiao is a young Chinese pianist whose disc entitled ‘Journey’ ranges far and wide through a ‘those she loves’...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2012
Just as David Greilsammer’s ‘fantaisie_fantasme’ (Naïve, 12/07) alternated old and new music according to a mirror-like symmetrical game plan, ‘Baroque...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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