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...
In a sense it’s a surprise that Tasmin Little and Piers Lane have only now got round to the Brahms...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018
Look on Ernest Bloch’s reputation, ye mighty, and despair. In 1957 Bloch merited an entire chapter to himself in Alec...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018
This is the third recording in the cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies that Andrew Manze has made with Onyx and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2018
Noisy demonstrations at the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky to have to furiously shout...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2018
Available to download or in the context of a 75th-birthday box, this generous 20th-century portrait mixes the relatively unexpected with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2018
The last time I heard the Great C major (numbered 8 or 9 depending on where you are) in concert...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018
Nearly four decades separate the works here but they are very recognisably by the same composer: Florent Schmitt, though eclectic,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2018
The latest disc in John Neschling’s Respighi survey focuses on works in which his post-Romantic idiom and love of early...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2018
The C minor Second Concerto has left me sitting on the fence. One moment I found myself luxuriating in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
For this dip into Prokofiev’s two major ballets, Stéphane Denève decides against any of the published suites but makes his...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger 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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