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...
Volume 75 of this remarkable series is graced by the presence of the pianist who inaugurated it back in 1991....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2018
François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ second Ravel disc for Harmonia Mundi is every bit as fine as their much-admired debut...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2018
Ethereal, spiritual, transcendental … such epithets are often applied to Arvo Pärt but only partly reveal the composer’s sound and...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2018
My first, uncharitable, reaction was to feel short-changed that we’re offered just two concertos where rival discs almost invariably include...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2018
Aldo Ciccolini can be numbered among the likes of Arthur Rubinstein, Mieczysław Horszowski, Vlado Perlemuter and the still-very-much-active Menahem Pressler...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
How is the weather on the Italian leg of the Grand Tour? For John Eliot Gardiner the Mediterranean sun streams...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2018
The gently irregular pulse at the outset of this Andante comodo bodes well for a Ninth which doesn’t lean on...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2018
Some exaggerated claims have been made for Erich Korngold’s extra-cinematic output but here are two of his finer works performed...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
I’d have to agree with Guy Rickards’s assertion that Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis is the most immediately attractive of his orchestral...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
Thomas Fey and his Heidelberg band launched their Haydn symphony survey in 1999 with a disc of the Surprise and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2018
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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