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...
There are four extant cantatas that Bach composed for solo alto voice. Three were recorded by Andreas Scholl in collaboration...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2012
Those aware of the international orchestral protests surrounding conductor Roberto Minczuk might be surprised at seeing a new release from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012
It’s striking just how vividly Vivaldi’s instrumentation – which dictates harmonic voicing and texture and melodic shape and compass –...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue:
Michel van der Aa’s enterprising synthesis of sound and vision continues with a work which transcends its hybrid nature in...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue:
One of the more striking of the slew of Tchaikovsky symphony performances over the last few years came from this...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue:
Osmo Vänskä’s revelatory first Sibelius symphony cycle, made with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s (reissued last year) formed...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue:
Though Mstislav Rostropovich may still rule the roost in ‘his’ concertos, none of his recordings can boast modern sound, let...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012
Ruders’s Fourth is an organ symphony in name and also in fact. It is certainly not a concerto – the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2012
More fiery and dramatic Nielsen from Sir Colin Davis and the LSO in the second instalment of their cycle of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2012
Another day, another Fifth – and there’s the rub. That a ‘provincial’ German orchestra of only 14 years’ standing should...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2012
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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