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...
The revelation of Vladimir Jurowski’s live London Philharmonic account from last year has made it difficult, if not impossible, to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2012
The third volume in Chandos’s welcome Lutosławski series brings a second helping of purely orchestral fare in a programme spanning...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2012
It was a good move to mark the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth with a performance of what is surely his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2012
Sergio Tiempo (formerly Sergio Daniel Tiempo) is a Venezuelan pianist with such an overflowing cornucopia of gifts that it is...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2012
Just as the shô, the mouth organ sharing roots with the Chinese sheng, morphed into its own distinctly Japanese identity,...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 04/2012
Sofia Gubaidulina’s religious nature, specifically Russian Orthodox, finds expression in each of these pieces. Each also makes use of her...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 04/2012
Hrachya Avanesyan is clearly a sensitive musician and highly accomplished; his performances on this disc, enlivened by imaginative expressive nuance,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 04/2012
Michael Daugherty, now in his later fifties, is one of the most frequently performed American composers and has held many...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 04/2012
The shadow of Rostropovich falls long over this particular coupling. Not only were both works dedicated to him but he...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2012
Listen to the Scherzos and Minuets of the first four symphonies. They fairly spring out of the blocks with a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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