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...
Quite an ear-opener. The Stravinsky Violin Concerto is little short of a revelation, lean and keen, with the kind of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW/2012
Valentina Igoshina plays the two Shostakovich piano concertos with technical aplomb, an abundance of colour and spacious phrasing. But the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW/2012
This performance of the E minor Concerto is splendid in many ways. The OAE, with its period instruments, delivers textures...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: AW/2012
The Harpsichord Concerto may be first up in the Holst Sinfonietta’s entertaining programme but for most the chief interest will...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012
Another relatively lightweight Fourth, recorded live in glorious sound, proves interpretatively a curate’s egg. On the rostrum is Gabriel Feltz,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW/2012
It was probably both a blessing and a curse that James MacMillan should have enjoyed such phenomenal success with his...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2012
With this second disc, BIS completes its recording of Lalo’s concertante violin works. Here once again is confirmation that Sarasate...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012
Zdeněk Chalabala’s greatest claim to fame was as an opera conductor – in Prague, Brno and at the Bolshoi –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW/2012
If you do not know them (and how would you? Only No 1 has even been broadcast in the UK...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW/2012
A composer often underestimated, Piers Hellawell has amassed a substantial output which has been the focus of several discs, this...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: AW/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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