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...
Is it really more than 15 years since the previous ECM collaboration between violinist Yuuko Shiokawa and her pianist husband...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2018
Katherine Bryan’s previous disc, ‘Silver Bow’ (11/15), saw the flautist tackle a series of string works rearranged for her instrument....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2017
Following discs of Brahms and Hindemith on Mirare, Raphaël Sévère – 21 at the time of this recording – turns...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2018
Among younger Finnish composers, Olli Virtaperko (b1973) certainly ranks among the most striking, as is witnessed by the three concertos...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
This disc launches the first 21st-century cycle of Tippett’s symphonies, and does so in great style. During the later years...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2018
Good things, they say, come to those who wait. The first instalment of Vladimir Jurowski’s Tchaikovsky cycle – the Manfred...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
This is the second release in a projected survey of Strauss tone poems from Kent Nagano and the Gothenburg Symphony...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2018
I think these two discs are rather good. No. Rephrase that. I think they are exceptional. The point is that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
There are elements of fantasy in both Karol Szymanowski’s heady Violin Concerto No 1 and Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane, but the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2018
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev cycle has had its ups and downs. A particular highlight was the generous coupling of the 1947...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2018
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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