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...
Acclaimed in his youth as the ‘greatest hope of German music’ – presumably as a slight to Hindemith, of whom...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW21
Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto is often seen as something of a Cinderella opus, forever in the shadow of the Dvořák...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21
A lot changed in Latvia between the early 1980s and the late 2010s. So, therefore, did the music of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW21
As I noted in my recent Collection on Strauss’s Don Quixote (7/21), one of the main decisions to be made...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW21
Only four years after the release of his thrilling live LPO recording of Strauss’s Alpensinfonie, here comes Vladimir Jurowski with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW21
This is very much in keeping with the impression I have always had of Robin Ticciati’s work: exhaustively prepared, immaculately...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW21
This is a album of great charm, though it’s very much aimed at a French-speaking audience, which inevitably will limit...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW21
Unlike many classical performers who enjoy a brief dalliance with Piazzolla’s music, the violinist Karen Gomyo seems to be in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW21
It’s difficult in many ways to come up with anything but lyrical adjectives when confronted with playing of this quality....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW21
Aleksi Barrière’s booklet introduction refers to the concerto as ‘a musical dramatisation of the encounter of an individual soloist with...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW21
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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