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...
The premiere recording of the Thirteenth Symphony is a major event for Weinbergians. After this there are only three symphonies...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2018
’Tis the season to roast your Nutcrackers by the fire. A year on from my mammoth survey of available recordings...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2018
Kirill Gerstein was the first to record the Tchaikovsky B flat minor using a new critical edition of the score...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2018
Bold local colours are pretty much a given for Petrushka with this orchestra and this conductor in this location. But...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018
It’s been a decade since Marc Albrecht last released a disc of Strauss orchestral music on Pentatone. That was an...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2018
There is enough explosive playing on this disc to trigger a red-level threat warning. Is it riveting? Intermittently, yes. Does...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
The third volume of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s survey of the piano concertos completes his recordings of the six concertos composed for...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2018
Anyone who thrilled (as I did) to Teodor Currentzis’s Tchaikovsky Pathétique will find distinct parallels here. The impulse, the imperative,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2018
Invited to Copenhagen to receive the annual Léonie Sonning Music Prize in March 2018, Mariss Jansons gave a celebration concert...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2018
Lovers of obscure but worthwhile Baroque music roll up! That is, unless you bought this disc when it first came...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2018
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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