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...
It was the 18th-century Mannheimers that put the clarinet on the map and inspired Mozart to mine the full expressive...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
It’s hardly surprising that an Austrian conductor who earlier on in his professional life played in both the Vienna Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2017
All but one of the six items on this latest serving of home-grown fare from Rumon Gamba and the BBC...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017
In 1988 Mieczysaw Weinberg claimed he started using the term ‘chamber symphony’ because he ‘didn’t want to continue the sequence...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2017
It is Erkki-Sven Tüür’s tight control of material and form that frees his notes up to have such impact. The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
First impressions count. The opening orchestral tutti of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is described Allegro moderato with a metronome marking of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2017
There seems to be a trend these days for creating new orchestra-only arrangements of music from Strauss’s operas. We’ve just...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
Three recordings of the Alpensinfonie have appeared within the past year, with this one from Mariss Jansons following those from...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2017
Plenty of recordings of the Cello Concerto No 1. Plenty of recordings of the Cello Sonata No 2. Single discs...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017
The centrepiece in this collection of recent works by Tarik O’Regan for choir and/or orchestra is A Celestial Map of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
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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