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...
Although he lived well into the 20th century, Richard Strauss ignored the new modernistic styles of aggressive dissonance and atonalism....
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2012
With over 80 minutes of music and demonstration sound to boot, Shostakovich’s first three symphonies make for a compelling disc....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2012
Andris Nelsons seems to have conducted every major European orchestra since he became chief conductor of the CBSO in 2008....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2012
Another month, another Schumann Piano Concerto. It’s always exciting when an artist of Angela Hewitt’s stature takes on such central...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012
The core of this CD is formed by Saint-Saëns’s four symphonic poems, Le rouet d’Omphale, Phaëton, Danse macabre and La...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2012
La muse et le poète for violin, cello and orchestra is, compared with the other two works on this disc,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2012
Vilde Frang’s compelling, individual performance of the Tchaikovsky compares most interestingly with Ray Chen’s recent recording. Her volatility, her extravagant...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 09/2012
Jan Lisiecki’s Chopin concerto recording with Howard Shelley received justified plaudits in 2010 and he now joins another pianist-conductor for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2012
Olivier Messiaen wrote several orchestral works while still in his early twenties, and the pair of those compositions included here...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2012
It is unfortunate for Jonathan Darlington and his Duisburger Philharmoniker that their well-intentioned but rather faceless account of Mahler’s Fifth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2012
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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