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...
Companies releasing DVDs of Britten’s operas must be glad they do not have to look over their shoulders at the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2018
Unseen except in a copiously illustrated booklet, Christof Loy’s staging nevertheless exerts a powerful influence over this audio-only production. Any...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018
Having watched this relatively brief (47 minutes) portrait, one is left in no doubt about how very lonely is the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018
Donald Fraser has made a very successful career from arrangements since his orchestral rescoring of Marin Marais’s The Bells of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018
Baiba Skride has been recording large swathes of the concerto repertory in relatively short order, travelling both along and off...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
If music is, indeed, ‘the food of love’, then Huw Watkins’s Flute Concerto (2013) does have ‘excess of it’! I...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
The last instalment of Vasily Petrenko’s Scriabin series contains works written only a decade apart, separated by a stylistic chasm....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2018
Every pianist who records Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto these days has to have their own take, it seems, on the famous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018
It could take traditional labels years to attract artists of this calibre to record works of this scale. Instead we...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
Anne-Sophie Mutter has advocated contemporary music throughout her four-decade career and Krzysztof Penderecki above all, as this two-disc 85th birthday...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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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