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...
Given his stature as a philosopher/pianist and his public comments disparaging piano contests, it is easy to forget that András...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2017
It’s a funny thing that, while we may bang on about how difficult it is to release a really distinctive...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017
Top billing on Naxos’s cover goes to The Lark Ascending but the main interest for RVW aficionados surrounds the first...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017
Boris Tishchenko’s last numbered symphony, composed two years before his death in 2010 (a ninth was left unfinished), is a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
In a foreword to the booklet-notes for this new BIS release, superstar trombonist and composer turned conductor Christian Lindberg writes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2017
Ludovic Morlot has garnered great reviews with the Seattle Symphony and it’s clear to hear why in a fine, purposeful...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
In a market crammed with recordings of Má vlast – several as historically significant as they are musically penetrating –...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017
Although not trumpeted anywhere on the sleeve, the booklet-notes claim Linus Roth’s recording as ‘the original echt Tchaikovsky version’ of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017
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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