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...
Sebastian Weigle’s ongoing series of Strauss’s orchestral works – one of several under way from a variety of sources –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2018
That The Gadfly (1955) is both tuneful and engaging has sometimes been taken to reflect Shostakovich’s improved political situation following...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018
Though Martha Argerich first recorded the Shostakovich Concerto for piano and trumpet in 1993 (DG, 1/95), most fans probably know...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2018
He is yet to enjoy much profile in the UK but Robin de Raaff (b1968) is among the leading Dutch...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018
This is the first instalment of yet another Prokofiev symphony cycle in what has lately become a hotly competitive field....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018
Turning her back on the recent fashion for mixing Prokofiev’s concertante and chamber works and having already recorded the violin...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2018
DG has a good track record with Paganini’s First Violin Concerto: five different recordings by different artists currently available on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018
I gather that Kimbo Ishii sets a sedate tempo for K488’s opening ritornello to accommodate Menahem Pressler’s 94 year-old hands....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018
For those like me to whom the name of Lūcija Garūta is new, let me tell you (because the discursive...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018
As with the previous instalment, this third volume of John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic’s survey of Copland’s orchestral music...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018
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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