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...
Alina Ibragimova’s quiet playing is perhaps the most arresting feature of these performances, especially as she and Cédric Tiberghien are...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019
In this typically provocative compilation, ECM producer Manfred Eicher doesn’t simply present a sequence of three separate, well-contrasted compositions: rather,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2019
Now we have the complete portrait, as it were, of Tchaikovsky through the eyes of Semyon Bychkov, many of the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019
The home viewer of this Rheingold-length gala enjoys certain advantages over the blinged-up patrons who packed the plastic hothouse of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019
If you regard yourself as a fairly seasoned and knowledgeable listener of Baroque music, then you may find the premise...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2019
If you’re looking for compelling contemporary harpsichord concertos beyond the usual suspects (Falla, Poulenc, Martin≤) in outstanding, superbly engineered performances,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019
Outside his native Bulgaria, Emil Tabakov (b1947) is perhaps best known for his recordings with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2019
Completed in December 1903, Stanford’s impressive Overture in the Style of a Tragedy had to wait nearly 107 years for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019
Alexander Rudin, a distinguished exponent of Myaskovsky’s Cello Concerto and his sonatas for the same instrument (Cello Classics), is also...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019
It may well be that more of the score is audible here than ever before. What’s lacking is less easily...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019
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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