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...
What an extraordinarily versatile and accomplished figure was Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012). As both performer and composer he possessed richly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2018
Julian Anderson’s opera Thebans (2013 14), his most elaborate and ambitious musical statement to date, provides a penetrating analysis of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2018
I’ll wager that champagne corks were popping in the Decca Classics office when they first heard the finished master of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018
Anyone familiar with La Serenissima’s zestily elegant Four Seasons (10/15) will be aware that these musicians represent one heck of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2018
Here’s a middle-of-the-road interpretation of a work that’s anything but. Indeed, the Pathétique is so emotionally charged and structurally daring...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018
I’m frankly astonished by how seldom performers adhere to the letter of Tchaikovsky’s score to his Violin Concerto, as if...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2018
As a peak of the orchestral repertoire, Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is in danger of becoming overrun: it’s a work that...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018
The Chinese violinist Zhi-Jong Wang made her debut at the age of 14 under Yehudi Menuhin and later won First...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
You would expect Pletnev – a complicated and elusive character at the best of times – to offer a radical...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2018
From Debussy on, Western composers have sought inspiration from non-Western instruments. In the past couple of decades, this tendency has...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2018
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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