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...
A one-time concert staple, Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto virtually disappeared from the repertoire in the West by the mid-20th...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018
In an ideal world there should be no need for a special orchestra that selects musicians on the basis of...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2018
Mozart’s late symphonic music is nowadays so much the province – almost the property – of the period-instrument brigade that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018
Chouchane Siranossian and Anima Eterna present not the familiar versions of these two evergreen masterpieces but instead go back to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2018
Magnus Lindberg wrote his Violin Concerto No 2 (2015) for Frank Peter Zimmermann. Whether or not the German’s thick-set tone...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2018
Why, you may rightly ask, has it taken fully 25 years for this set of Holst’s The Planets to see...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018
Michael Hersch’s Violin Concerto (2015) immediately hurls us into a wrenching scene. Trumpet and horn yelp a distressed fanfare as...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2018
‘That’s the best piece of classical music you’ve played to me’, quipped my 10-year-old daughter on hearing Ruth Gipps’s Second...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018
Recordings of Gerald Finzi’s imposing Cello Concerto (premiered at the Cheltenham Festival under John Barbirolli in 1955, the last full...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018
The scale and richness of Bruckner’s String Quintet have encouraged a number of arrangements for string orchestra over the years,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2018
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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