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...
What a sensible idea to programme both of Shostakovich’s concertos with the two piano sonatas, with the early First Sonata getting...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2017
While Scriabin’s Second Symphony is arguably the most conventional of his five from a melodic and harmonic standpoint, it’s not a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
One would be hard-pressed to find a flautist whose music-making is as broad as Alexis Kossenko’s. Active on both modern...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2017
Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and The Carnival of the Animals are rarely paired together on disc. Hugely different in scale, they...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
It’s unfortunate, perhaps, that Gustavo Gimeno’s new Pentatone recording of Daphnis et Chloé should appear so soon after François-Xavier Roth’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2017
Why re-record Weinberg’s Fifth? Well, it is certainly a standout piece in his output of 26 symphonies, constantly astonishing by its...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2017
At the heart of this curiously planned miscellany is Prokofiev’s G minor Violin Concerto, one of the last scores he completed...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2017
For a composer of some of the most easy-going music in history, Carl Millöcker appears to have been a tricky...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
It is partly the constantly changing and complex rhythms that have contributed to the comparative neglect of Medtner’s three piano...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2017
William Mathias didn’t seem to have much, if any, interest in working anywhere near the musical cutting edge, yet there’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2017
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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