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...
Harry Christophers and his Bostonians continue their survey through Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies with the suave No 86, pairing it this...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018
Ástor Piazzolla’s Bandoneón Concerto has been well-served on record, most notably by the composer himself in a swaggering 1987 account...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018
Although Ewa Pobłocka has amassed a sizeable discography since the early 1980s, only a handful of releases have crossed my...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2018
It’s apposite that Andris Nelsons’s account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, the second release in his cycle of the composer’s symphonies,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2018
On paper, Robin Ticciati’s new set of Brahms’s symphonies bears a striking resemblance to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s previous recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018
The French pianist Adam Laloum is Sony’s newest young artist on the block, signed in 2016. Seven years earlier he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2018
Writing in the 2013 Awards issue regarding Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s often striking version of Bartók’s Second Concerto (Gramophone Recording of the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2018
Frank Peter Zimmerman has slipped in a couple of less predictable offerings for this Bach violin concertos programme, because while...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2018
Two discs, over 50 performers and 1000 years of musical history: even by Jordi Savall’s standards, ‘Venezia Millenaria’ is an...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018
This collection of English songs (in this instance songs in English, since it contains two songs by Americans) is a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble 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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