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...
Mari Samuelsen is joined by her cellist brother Håkon and the Trondheim Soloists for an album which hangs off the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
This is as much a celebration of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra’s principal flute chair as it is a snapshot of...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2017
Unlike many of his colleagues, Vladimir Jurowski has always been a records man. The Russian-born conductor freely admits to Andrew...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2017
I demand to know what Neeme Järvi has for breakfast! At 80 years old, with nearly 500 recordings under his belt, he...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2017
Here’s the final instalment in the Vaughan Williams symphony cycle launched so propitiously all those years ago by Richard Hickox...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017
Martyn Brabbins masterminds a superbly involving account of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its first published edition from 1920. Clocking...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017
Those familiar with Vladimir Jurowski’s Strauss from the concert hall will have some idea of what to expect from his...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2017
>Presenter, actor and singer Alexander Armstrong is probably best known to children as the voice of CBBC’s Danger Mouse, and he...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2017
An hour spent with Mozart in light-music mode is always an hour well spent, and here we have not one but...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017
Noa Wildschut is one to watch – as proclaimed in the last issue of Gramophone, as well as by Anne-Sophie Mutter, who has mentored...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017
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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