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...
What if Mozart had never lived? Then perhaps we’d hold the Bohemian composer Leopold Kozeluch in higher regard. Certainly he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017
Ginastera was still a teenager when he began writing Panambí (1934 37). The concert suite he extracted from the nearly...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
The Finnish violin concerto after Sibelius: Erkki Melartin’s looked like a winner but sank; Aarre Merikanto wrote four but the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017
Jakub Hrůša considers himself literally blessed to experience, love and transmit Dvořák’s work. The Czech conductor tells us so himself...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017
Our century may be young, but several violin concertos have already staked a claim as major statements in the genre:...
Reviewed by David Allen in issue: 01/2017
I don’t know how many recordings of Chopin’s E minor Concerto there are. The Deutsche Grammophon label alone has nearly...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2017
This recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, taped during a live concert in 2010, is distinguished by Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s brisk, focused...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2017
She did great things with Bruch’s first two violin concertos. Now Antje Weithaas, in her determination to complete the set,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2017
There’s much to admire in Jack Liebeck’s patrician account of Bruch’s D minor Violin Concerto. His playing is virtually flawless...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2017
Zoltán Kocsis, that ‘giant of music’ (as Iván Fischer has called him), became Music Director of the Hungarian National Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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