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...
Saint-Saëns’s piano concertos have been well served on disc in recent years, not least by Bertrand Chamayou’s double Gramophone Award...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2020
The German-born Dutch composer Julius Röntgen was nothing if not prolific. In addition to some 25 symphonies and three concertos...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
Fine though it is, this disc suffers, perhaps, from being too self-consciously programmed. Using what is effectively a palindromic structure,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2020
Thierry Fischer pairs two contrasting Prokofiev film scores in this Utah Symphony release: the gritty, rarely heard cantata Alexander Nevsky...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020
Andrew Norman burst upon the scene a few years ago with the three-movement, 45-minute-long symphony Play (2013, rev 2016), which...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2020
This is one of those discs that commands respect (this conductor is pretty much always a safe investment) without setting...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2020
The catalogue numbers may suggest otherwise, but this disc gathers the four earliest known symphonies by the young Mozart, along...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020
‘Gloriously gut-punching’ was a San Francisco critic’s verdict on the live performance of Ives’s Fourth Symphony used for this disc....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2020
With his stylistic roots in the scores of John Williams and Elmer Bernstein it seems hardly surprising that Stuart Hancock...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
There aren’t very many concertos for harpists to choose from – and even fewer of truly high quality – which...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
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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