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...
Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
This is a fascinating slant on an effective arrangement, though the unhelpfully reverberant recording rather mitigates against total enjoyment. In...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
I’d read chatter on the internet talking up Matthias Pintscher’s 2012 Bereshit, his 30-minute composition for large ensemble, as a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2017
Pictures at an exhibition grace the cover of this Pictures at an Exhibition, the result of a collaboration between Gustavo...
Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 02/2017
In November 2016 Mahler’s manuscript score of the Resurrection sold for the highest sum ever paid for such a document....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2017
The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen is no joking matter. Named after the musicians that gave London’s first public concerts...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017
Sol Gabetta’s handling of Martinů’s life-affirming First Cello Concerto (1930 55), which over a 25 year period grew from a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
With this live recording of the Ninth, Marcus Bosch is close to concluding his Dvořák cycle for Coviello. As in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
The headline act in this January 2016 Munich concert was the cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the eponymous hero of Richard...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2017
This is the second version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony on DVD and Blu-ray disc conducted by Christian Thielemann to appear...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins 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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