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 two Ramuntcho suites derive from Pierné’s incidental music for a play by Pierre Loti, first staged in 1908, which...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
Le Concert de la Loge Olympique was the professional orchestra active in Paris in the 1780s, conducted by (among others)...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
Considered as a pocket history of Messiaen’s large-scale writing, this set could hardly be improved upon. We hear the composer’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2022
Diotima (1976) was John Harbison’s first orchestral work and the Sixth Symphony (2012) is his most recent (and, the composer...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022
Here it would be nice to say we have two for the price of one: two versions of Pelléas and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2022
This second instalment in Capriccio’s ambitious project to record all of the versions of the symphonies in the New Anton...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
Ahead of the planned release of Christian Thielemann’s recording of Bruckner’s First Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2022
‘The most astounding genius I have ever heard’, declared Leopold Stokowski after hearing the seven-year-old Oscar Shumsky, who made his...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
It may be more usual for a young artist to dip their first toes in the recording waters with a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
Purists will doubtless scoff at the idea of another album of recomposed Baroque music but there is some justification when...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2022
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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