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 accordion tradition is flourishing in Denmark, if these distinctive and complementary discs are anything to go by – showcasing...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2012
Vieuxtemps’s violin concertos are slowly getting the attention they deserve – on disc, at least – with Hyperion and Naxos...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue:
The latest Telemann release from Collegium Musicum 90 (devotedly funded by director Simon Standage from a prize awarded by the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2012
Will Shostakovich’s Fifteenth remain the last self-styled symphony to gain a permanent place in the orchestral repertoire? Despite its elusive...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2012
Period brass – two each of Inventionshorns (with curved sliding crooks called ‘inventions’ inserted into the body of the instruments...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 07/2012
Justin Brown has talked of learning this symphony as a child from Horenstein’s 1953 recording, and there’s a loving, expansive,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2012
About a third of the way through Robert Neumüller’s documentary, conductor Mariss Jansons offers the cameraman – and viewing audience...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2012
The most recent instalment in Markus Stenz’s Mahler cycle with the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne is an improvement over their...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2012
Whether by luck or design I can’t say, but the fourth volume of Arturo Tamayo’s cycle-in-progress of Bruno Maderna’s complete...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2012
Anyone seeking an entry point into Arthur Honegger’s unique sound world could hardly do better than the seductive opening of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012
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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