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...
For all his longevity and prolificacy, Florent Schmitt remains best remembered for a trilogy of pieces from the early 20th...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
The most significant thing about Hyperion’s latest Romantic Piano Concerto instalment is its inclusion of Emil von Sauer’s Second Concerto...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2024
So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2024
Prokofiev had three goes at getting his first cello concerto right, and the last of these, the Symphony-Concerto (previously, and...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2024
I began with the Sixth Symphony, John Pickard’s most recent essay in the medium, conceived in early 2021 during the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
The novelty on this nicely if unspectacularly recorded album is the set of ‘three short dances’ for orchestra All These...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024
Here we have two experienced Mozartians, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet now in his ninth volume of Mozart piano concertos, Ben Kim in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2024
A student of Novák, Martinů and Václav Talich, Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915‑40) might have been a leading composer of the last...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2024
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London continue their exploration of the orchestral works of Kenneth Fuchs in a second...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 07/2024
The flow of recordings marking this centenary year of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) may be now well under way but the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
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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