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...
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge bring us the latest in their Vivaldi Edition with Naïve, a recording...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022
The final instalment in Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle features the composer’s last three symphonies, and very impressive performances they...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022
I don’t think anybody would deny that there were times when Gennady Rozhdestvensky wore his craft so lightly, so casually,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022
Schubert can hardly be thought to have become caught up in anniversary fervour but a generous production of symphonic recordings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022
I think it’s fair to say that I greeted the inaugural Ravel collection from this source (7/21) with ‘modified rapture’....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022
We might love Rachmaninov for his big tunes but he is also a great master of building epic spans from...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge reprise the overture-concerto-symphony formula of their previous Mozart recording (1/22) with a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022
The real pleasure here lies with the Czech Philharmonic – something individual, characterful and homespun in a world dominated by...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022
Khachaturian lost out to himself in the Stalin Prize stakes of 1940. His ambitious Piano Concerto looked like a sure...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022
This release concludes Ondine’s edition of the symphonies by Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919-2008) who, born in Latvia and educated in Paris,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
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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