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...
Joshua Bell was in his teens when he first recorded the Bruch G minor and Mendelssohn concertos with Neville Marriner...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
Alpha is a label that gets ever more wide-ranging, as witness the discs of Shostakovich chamber music (see page 63)...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2018
Claudio Abbado stepped down from his post as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 2002 on the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2018
The opening orchestral tutti seems to augur well for this new account of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. I do miss the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
There can’t be many ensembles around as stylistically fleet-footed as Hamburg’s Ensemble Resonanz. I’m still thinking fondly back to their...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2018
Tor Aulin (1866-1914) had a tough life. He was three when his father died, his mother was heartlessly strict, and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
This panorama of visionary sound and process from Morton Feldman and contemporaries covers a period in American music when Feldman,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2018
There was a time when The Rite of Spring put an orchestra through its paces, and the palpable effort of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
There are many really fine American composers for orchestra at the moment, though few have the international presence of, say,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2018
Many pianists, I suspect, would envy the long résumé of recital dates, chamber music collaborations and teaching credits mentioned in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
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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