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 previous releases in Chandos’s Halvorsen orchestral series juxtaposed shorter pieces with the symphonies and theatrical suites. Having run out...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012
More Grieg from a German radio orchestra under a Norwegian baton. And, like Eivind Aadland’s recent work in Cologne (Audite,...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2012
If there were an Olympic discipline for transparency of orchestration (not so fanciful a notion, since music formed part of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2012
It is a particular pleasure to welcome Lionel Sainsbury’s Cello Concerto, since many years ago by happenstance (it’s a long...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2012
In the concert hall Paul Watkins has already shown himself to be an exemplary exponent of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, so...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2012
Daniel Barenboim is both the most inspiring and at times the most exasperating of interpretative geniuses. In Bruckner, whole paragraphs...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012
The last version of the 1866 ‘Linz’ edition of Bruckner’s First that I reviewed was Mario Venzago’s with the Tapiola...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012
The 100-year-old Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra is a modestly sized ensemble from southern Sweden which plays on modern instruments. Its work...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2012
Warmth and vitality are appropriate keywords for this coupling, a practical Bartók primer you might say, well played, persuasively interpreted...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2012
Christopher Ball (b1936) studied clarinet at the Royal Northern College of Music and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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