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...
On the face of it, Handel’s three Concerti a due cori – by which he meant for two orchestras –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2018
By my reckoning this is the 15th Avie recording to feature the music of Hans Gál and, despite its worth,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2018
In his booklet note, Paul Griffiths suggests that Brian Ferneyhough’s music might be heard as a corrective (even a wake-up...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018
This concert was recorded in May 2017, following the announcement that Andris Nelsons would succeed Riccardo Chailly as music director...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2018
Copland was 75 when this short but attractive concert with the Los Angeles Philharmonic was filmed for the long-running PBS...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2018
Although the outer sleeve and booklet note make no mention of it, this is the first recording of the International...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2018
It was only a matter of time before Eldbjørg Hemsing, a big star in her native Norway, followed her sister...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
Liza Ferschtman’s Mendelssohn coupling (5/17) sounded astonishingly fresh but her mid-20th-century follow-up is something of a curate’s egg: two more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2018
This superlative performance of Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells is one of those stratospherically accomplished, ‘cosmic’ ones that Jansons says...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2018
For organists of a certain vintage the Parisian church of St Etienne du Mont is indelibly associated with Maurice Duruflé,...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2018
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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