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 striking originality of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2017
Martha Argerich’s Ravel G major was for so long a reference recording that it’s easy to forget how idiosyncratic it...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2017
Paavo Järvi presides over a splendidly stylish and invigorating Nielsen anthology featuring the Philharmonia at the top of its game...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
Before tackling the music and recording, I should like to express my admiration for Ivo Varbanov, the Bulgarian London-based pianist...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2017
Two litmus tests in any performance of Mendelssohn’s glorious Scottish Symphony are the Adagio third movement and the final peroration....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2017
I have long adored the songs and admired the talent of Michel Legrand, inflected as it is with a jazzer’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2016
Naxos’s ‘Czech Masters in Vienna’ series turns to Leopold Koželuch (1747-1818), a composer in whom some interest has been shown...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017
As the high opus numbers of these three works, all written between 2009 and 2016, betray, David Hackbridge Johnson (b1963)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2017
Carlos Kalmar chooses three named symphonies for a Haydn disc with the Portland-based orchestra of which he has been music...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017
What could be the possible reason for recording Haydn’s keyboard concertos on an accordion? In this case, the easy answer...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2017
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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