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...
It’s not just critics who get things wrong. Even great soloists have occasionally rejected concertos before changing their minds. Nikolay...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
By coincidence, on the day this CPO disc arrived for review I was engaged in researching the booklet for a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018
‘A gracefully elegant, thoroughly aristocratic Russian’ is how the German violinist Antje Weithaas describes Tchaikovsky in her booklet note. She...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
The Spanish-German cellist Gabriel Schwabe offers what the booklet describes as Schumann’s ‘Complete Works for Cello’. In fact, all that...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
‘Next to … Liszt’s Variations on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” … I found the neoclassicist/neo-baroque corset worn by Brahms...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2018
Saint-Saëns’s five piano concertos are well catered for on disc. Every home should have at least one complete set of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2018
Poul Ruders’s Viola Concerto was written in 1993 94, between his First Cello Concerto, Anima, and First Piano Concerto, but...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2018
Vladimir Ashkenazy has always conducted Rachmaninov’s most extended symphony with conviction, making it feel not one bar too long. Indeed,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018
If you want to read a glowing review of at least one work on this disc, you can do so...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son (b1986) is already something of a veteran, having performed with the New York...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
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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