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...
Josephslegende, the first of Strauss’s two ballets, was composed to a scenario by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Anglo-German count...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2024
The obvious question is why it has taken more than 17 years for Haitink’s second recording of Shostakovich’s wartime colossus...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2024
Early in his tenure as music director of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano made some very...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
This is the third and best release in the ongoing Prokofiev symphony cycle from the LSO and its principal guest...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
A near-perfect combo of works spanning the length and breadth of Carl Nielsen’s life’s work. The tone poem Pan and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2024
Like a sprinter lurching forwards to breast the tape, Johannes Klumpp announces that last spring he recorded the remaining symphonies...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2024
The best music effects a kind of time travel on the ear. Turn to the slow movement of the Harpsichord...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2024
Pietari Inkinen has been building an impressive career without the intense media scrutiny accorded some of his Finnish colleagues. While...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2024
Delius lovers will already cherish the Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan as extracted and edited by Thomas Beecham for use...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
Hot on the heels of Baiba Skride’s exhilarating account of Britten’s Violin Concerto comes this one from Isabelle Faust in...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
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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