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...
Chalk and cheese – or more aptly sweet and sour – is the flavour of this Glazunov and Shostakovich concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2016
If you’re wondering, and this would be a perfectly reasonable point to raise, why an album of Morton Feldman’s music...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2016
Although his prominence among European composers has come about primarily through his operas, Peter Eötvös has been equally prolific in...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016
You can’t fault the Houston Symphony for consistency. Their March release of Dvořák’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies (5/16) was both...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 08/2016
Reviewing Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of the Concerto with the Helsinki Philharmonic under John Storgårds I made reference to ‘an exceptionally...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2016
Toru Takemitsu’s Nostalghia, an elegy for the great Russian film maker Andrei Tarkovsky, forms the memorable conclusion to this impressive...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2016
This is the third time Czerny’s A minor Piano Concerto has appeared in these pages in as many issues, if...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2016
Although Kairos’s rate of production has decreased in the past few years, the Viennese label still regularly releases discs of...
Reviewed in issue 08/2016
Even 100 years after his death on the Somme, it’s still impossible not to feel the gap left by George...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
This concert recording of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony follows on from the LPO’s previous releases of the Third and Seventh symphonies...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2016
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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