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...
Respighi’s sizeable orchestral output has only latterly come into its own on disc and this release from Brilliant is announced...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 06/2012
The first movement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances is marked Non allegro, one of those tricky indications that lets you know...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012
Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto is a once-popular showpiece that featured in the repertoires of pianists such as Hofmann and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
Placing the earliest (1963) and most recent (1997) works together at the beginning of this programme neatly confirms that Penderecki...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2012
Per Nørgård’s First Violin Concerto, Helle Nacht (‘Bright Night’, 1986-87), is a beautifully crafted, illustrative suite in four movements inspired...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012
A work of undeniably quality, Finn Mortensen’s only symphony (1952-53) looks, Janus-like, forwards and backwards. The low opus number and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2012
We’ve come to expect certain qualities from this Bamberg/Nott Mahler cycle – not least real stylistic awareness and exceptional attention...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2012
Any new Mahler symphony in the recording catalogue these days had better have a good reason behind it. Fortunately, François-Xavier...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 06/2012
With this recording we enter a new phase of interpreting early music. Dominik Kiefer and his Capriccio colleagues approach the...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 06/2012
Denis Matsuev won the 1998 Tchaikovsky Competition with a performance of Liszt’s First Concerto and has since emerged, in recital...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2012
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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