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...
Few of Enescu’s smaller works are repertoire items outside his native Romania. It’s often forgotten that he was a celebrated...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2012
César Franck’s Violin Sonata drops from the soprano and alto register to the tenor and bass-baritone in this performance by...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2012
Scholar Marion M Scott described Op 29 as ‘a very beautiful work – beautiful both from its themes and the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2012
The Beethoven and Berg violin concertos aren’t commonly paired on disc. However, in this case it seems like an inspired...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2012
Emily Pailthorpe is a young prize-winning oboist, trained at the Juilliard School in New York, who plays with an exceptionally...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 03/2012
The opening sequence shows a man perching precariously at the top of a flimsy pole connecting a tangle of live...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
There may be works by Brahms, Copland and Piazzolla here but almost every piece is a novelty in Martin Fröst’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2012
There was a time when even my heart might have sunk at the idea of ‘Vivaldi Bassoon Concertos, Vol 2’,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2012
As violinist and Avison Ensemble director Pavlo Beznosiuk writes in his booklet-note to the Avison’s fine new complete recording of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2012
It’s really hard to fault any of Nelsons’s choices here. Like Tchaikovsky, he is a classicist at heart: nothing is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue:
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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