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 life-story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges reads like an Alexandre Dumas tale. Born on Christmas Day 1745 to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2021
It drives me insane when a CD booklet does not list the orchestral players by name. How am I to...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2021
These are imaginative performances, well worth sampling even if the coupling is far from unique. In the 1990s Tedi Papavrami...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2021
Time was that the fabled name of Jānis Ivanovs (1906 83) was uttered, if at all, only after slightly less...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2021
This is Rosanne Philippens’s first album with The Vondel Strings, a new ensemble which she founded last year during the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2021
Previous recordings of the Bruckner symphonic canon have sometimes included the unnumbered F minor and D minor entries in the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2021
Few performances thought worthy of being preserved on record are without merit. There are occasions, however, as in this account...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2021
Now into the 14th season of a projected 20-year stint as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2021
Third time lucky I’d say applies more than ever to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s three recordings of Beethoven’s Fifth. The first, a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
Handsome isn’t the word. A blue and gold gatefold oblong package, one half casing two CDs and a Blu ray...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
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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