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...
This last of Vasily Petrenko’s discs as chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic finds the team on something like top...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2021
Sebastian Bohren’s previous outings with the CHAARTS Chamber Artists have seen him directing hefty repertoire – Beethoven (7/16) and Hartmann...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2021
If one asked composer Magnus Lindberg to name his favourite instrument, his answer would probably be ‘the orchestra’. A case...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2021
There is some lovely playing on offer here from Van Diemen’s Band conducted by Martin Gester; the only problem is...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2021
Holst, Tippett, Birtwistle – British composers in the modern era have achieved great things with the kind of dialogues between...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2021
There’s a sad paradox in that while the world of literature happily accepts the idea that even the best writers...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021
The Third Symphony’s germinal F-A-F motif is grandly stated at the outset, yet also sprung with a momentum to sweep...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2021
Krystian Zimerman first recorded the Beethoven concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1989, leading the two early concertos from the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2021
Here’s a second, tasty helping of British string music courtesy of CPO and the South West German Chamber Orchestra under...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2021
I really thought I knew this work – every facet of it. But Kirill Petrenko has a way of hearing...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021
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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