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...
Another month, another Berlioz Symphonie fantastique. No sooner have the Orchestre National de Lyon and Leonard Slatkin released their version...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue:
Res severa gaudium (‘pleasure is a serious business’), the proscenium of the Gewandhaus stage sternly enjoins us; and, after the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW/2012
Sylvain Cambreling is most often namechecked in Gramophone, at least by me, for his recordings of Salvatore Sciarrino, Morton Feldman,...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: AW/2012
Even if you’re not a fan of David Chesky’s Concerto for electric guitar and orchestra or Yngwie Malmsteen’s Concerto Suite...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: AW/2012
Eh bien, voici un disque vraiment délicieux! Stephen Hough describes this album as ‘a sort of musical dessert trolley’. Come,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
There are few more agreeable venues in which to hear world-class performances than Verbier – if the music doesn’t grab...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012
Without a word of warning, the Ukrainian-born American-based pianist Valentina Lisitsa has leapfrogged from expert collaborator (she’s recorded with violinists...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW/2012
Yes, that’s right: three hours 18 minutes and 38 seconds of music on one disc. That is only one of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW/2012
Stravinsky’s awed and baffled question regarding Scriabin – ‘Where does he come from and where does he go?’ – is...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW/2012
Putting my head above a parapet, I have to say that these performances of Prokofiev’s three ‘War’ Sonatas (for Sviatoslav...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison 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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