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...
After an uncertain start, Osmo Vänskä’s Mahler cycle has been winning wider acclaim. No doubt it’s the more forward-looking works...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2021
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has been making a signal contribution to American music, with this new disc no exception....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2021
Previously only available in BR-Klassik’s set of Jansons’s recordings of Symphonies Nos 3, 4 and 6-9, reviewed by Rob Cowan...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2021
All three of these performances are live, the Violin Concerto and Seven Early Songs captured in 2018, while the Three...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2021
Grafting local vines on to European rootstock is how the great American orchestras were first established and how many continue...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2021
Right from the generously spread opening chord, this is a Seventh with its roots in the 18th century, evoking a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021
Listening to Bartók’s chilling ‘pantomime grotesque’ The Miraculous Mandarin – complete – in a performance as good as this one...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2021
‘Beyond the Limits’ is the title of this album; and anyone who imagines CPE Bach as a diligent plodder at...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2021
On July 1, 1907, Marcel Proust hosted a private concert at the Ritz in Paris in honour of Gaston Calmette,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2021
The Crossing are a leading chamber choir, comprising 24 singers, who won Grammy Awards in 2018 and 2019 for two...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2021
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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