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...
‘Symphonist’ is not a description often applied to Arvo Pärt. Yet the four works contained on this disc (three of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2018
Could there have been a touch of Brendel-inspired whimsy about the idea of a concert marking the 222nd anniversary of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2018
Riccardo Chailly’s debut as Music Director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2016 was Mahler’s gigantic Eighth Symphony, completing the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2018
Yet again we are faced with recurrent questions surrounding stylistic ethics and the exclusivity of music about music. Rolf Martinsson’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018
Has any popular violin concerto had a shakier start in life than Korngold’s? Born into a post-war America where critics...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2018
João Carlos Martins premiered Ginastera’s First Piano Concerto in 1961 and made the first recording in 1968 with Leinsdorf and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2018
The music of Bruckner has been increasingly prominent in the repertoire of Mariss Jansons and Simon Rattle over the past...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2018
Brendel, Fleisher, Freire, Gilels, Graffman, Hough, Kovacevich, Lewis, Rubinstein, Serkin: 10 reasons why anyone contemplating recording the Brahms concertos should...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2018
I’d trust the violinist who wedded works by Roy Harris and John Adams on one the most absorbing concerto discs...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018
In Turnage’s double concerto Shadow Walker, Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope are often entwined in canons or reflective gestures but...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor 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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