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...
Conversationalist Beethoven, this – meaning that two very different voices (Midori, gentle; Thibaudet, assertive) bring their individual qualities to each...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2023
Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music pick up their Mozart piano concerto cycle where they left off quarter...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
This is a marvellous recording. It’s not uncommon for conductors as distinguished as Neeme Järvi (who turned 85 last year)...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
After a string of well-received albums for BIS (5/18, 12/18, 4/19, 6/20), star violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing moved to Sony in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
It was impossible not to be intrigued when this one appeared on my desk. Dvořák’s mighty Cello Concerto – an...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023
Having been somewhat neglected in recent decades, Franck’s once-popular Symphony in D minor appears to be enjoying something of a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2023
A very revealing coupling from Storgårds. The question is often asked why it is that the predecessor to the Twelfth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
In October 2015 Ondine’s founder, Reijo Kiilunen – in conversation with Andrew Mellor – singled out Lotta Wennäkoski (b1970) as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Martyn Brabbins rounds off his Vaughan Williams symphony cycle for Hyperion with a most impressive account of the Ninth. His...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
So this is the Stravinsky Violin Concerto I have so often seen on the page but rarely heard in performance....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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