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...
Here is more seemingly effortless music-making from Mariss Jansons. The interpretations of both pieces being broadly consistent with those he...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
John Barbirolli came to Wagner in an age when orchestras were often smaller, pitch lower, and good conductors routinely versed...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2015
An odd suggestion, perhaps, but start by playing the Larghetto of K413. Conductor Michael Alexander Willens sets the scene, the...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2015
Given that it was Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s tonally luxuriant Philadelphia Orchestra that made the first commercial recording of the reconstructed Tenth...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
Somewhere in this Somm release is a more characterful one struggling to get out. The soloist, the Greek violinist Efi...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 12/2015
Peter Ruzicka follows his pioneering disc of Enescu’s Fifth Symphony and Isis (10/14) with the earlier of the Romanian’s unfinished...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2015
Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto Tout un monde lointain… (1970) is so intimately wrapped up in his relationship with Mstislav Rostropovich,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2015
Tasmin Little’s magnificent new recording of the irresistibly tuneful and big-hearted Violin Concerto that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor wrote in 1912 for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
Often overlooked by conductors in the past, Bruckner’s D minor Symphony (Die Nullte) has seen something of a renaissance in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2015
BIS’s extensive coverage of Sally Beamish continues with a disc of orchestral music largely written during 2003 07. The programme...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2015
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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