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...
The Suisse Romande Orchestra (OSR) famously recorded El sombrero de tres picos and the Interlude and Dance from La vida...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2017
While not wishing to mislead with excessive praise, Marc Coppey’s 2016 account of the Dvořák Concerto more reminded me of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
Copland described his Third Symphony (1946) as an ‘end-of-war piece – intended to reflect the euphoric spirit of the country...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017
Recent advances in understanding of Bruckner’s work on the unfinished finale of his Ninth Symphony, including the recognition that the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017
What a difference six days makes. That’s the amount of time between Thielemann’s performance of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on this...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017
Should a composer’s final thoughts be considered definitive? It’s a question that often arises in connection with the works of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2017
Conductor-composers tackling Brahms symphonies on disc aren’t exactly thin on the ground: think of Bernstein, Furtwängler, Gielen, Klemperer, Kubelík, Walter...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
Set in the grounds of a grand Schloss on the plains of Lower Austria, the Grafenegg Festival does well by...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2017
The American composer Robert Beaser has the happy knack of writing orchestrally yet idiomatically for solo classical guitar. Just listen...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2017
Antheil sometimes plagiarises so unashamedly that listening to his music with real enjoyment demands a suspension of disbelief. His First...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017
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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