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 that the orchestra could be described as one of the key characters in Strauss’s Elektra, it is surprising that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2017
When it comes to the First Cello Concerto, the most obvious recent point of comparison is Alisa Weilerstein with the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
If you have your doubts about the various scored-up versions of Shostakovich’s string quartets for chamber orchestra, then Boris Giltburg’s...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
If you want to hear a late-20th-century equivalent of ‘The Scream’ as suggested in the first movement of Mahler’s Tenth...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2017
Luxuriously orchestrated and sensuously intoxicating, the extended orchestral interludes found in Schreker’s operas are as fine an introduction as any...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017
We’ve waited a long time for the successor to Sunleif Rasmussen’s First Symphony, Oceanic Days (1997). John Storgårds eventually lost...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017
When it comes to recordings of Mozart’s First Flute Concerto the choices of partner works are rarely of an originality...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
We reach the end of Brautigam’s Mozart concerto cycle with the four ‘early’ works. These were long assumed to be...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017
The ‘other’ Fischer boldly goes where his younger brother has enjoyed such conspicuous success – and Adam, with his excellent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2017
The Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang, primarily known and acclaimed for her Naxos discs of Sarasate, struggles here to make much...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2017
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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