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...
Great, I thought: Nelson Goerner playing the Paderewski concerto – that should be a magnificent match. It’s still an underrated...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016
The most significant piece here – in scale and ambition if not duration – is Era, written for the Royal...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2016
This is a quietly unusual coupling of Haydn symphonies. Unusual in that No 78 seems more likely to appear with...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016
This opulently arrayed set presents a record and film of Claudio Abbado’s final concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded a...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016
During the 19th century, the wind quintet and its repertoire became firmly established. In the early 20th century, composers explored...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016
If everyone approached an anniversary year like Carion and Odradek have here, our listening would be infinitely richer. The disc...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2016
Wergo’s booklet-notes seem to hint at the prospect of a complete cycle of Vasks’s string quartets from this accomplished ensemble...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2016
Less forcefully than The Lindsays, yet with more momentum than the Tippett Quartet on Naxos, the Heath Quartet’s Tippett exemplifies...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016
Julius Röntgen’s not-entirely undeserved reputation for composing too much may lead unwary listeners to pass by this third instalment of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016
The main interest here is the premiere recording of the newly discovered violin and piano introduction to the Moses Fantasy:...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016
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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