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...
The distinction between objectivity and subjectivity is crucial in Mahler and it doesn’t take long to establish that Vänskä’s bias...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018
Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
At least on record, the Leipzig Gewandhaus does not have much of a Mahler tradition – Masur and Neumann briskly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
Emmanuel Krivine’s new La mer with the Orchestre National de France focuses on the much-discussed question of Debussy’s decision, on...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018
The third release in Naxos’s survey of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra offers two recorded premieres, both dating...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018
Despite their interest in Bruckner’s output being quite selective, both Kurt Sanderling and Carlo Maria Giulini made a number of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018
A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018
What’s the longest viola joke in the world? Harold in Italy. It didn’t make Niccolò Paganini laugh though. The virtuoso...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
The signs are that Jaap van Zweden will restore to the New York Philharmonic some of the bulk (muscle tone,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
It is almost impossible not to like Alessio Bax. Since his Leeds Competition win in 2000 he has confirmed his...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2018
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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