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...
A year or two ago I watched a fascinating Supraphon documentary about the great Czech conductor Václav Talich who, towards...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2015
Born in 1974, the brilliant French jazz composer/pianist Baptiste Trotignon has already won many plaudits both as a gifted solo...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
Does The Rite of Spring still have the power to shock? Seeing the Mariinsky Ballet reconstruction of the original ballet...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2015
Sibelius’s Two Pieces, Op 77, were on my wish list for recording projects in the composer’s anniversary year, so it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015
The penultimate instalment in this absorbing series launches with what is only the second-ever complete recording of the original score...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
The catalogue isn’t exactly short of fine recordings of the two Shostakovich cello concertos. But Gautier Capuçon immediately shows that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2015
With his reputation irrevocably tarnished by his far right politics, Florent Schmitt is one of the more problematic figures of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Louis Schwizgebel is the Swiss-Chinese pianist (b1987) who was awarded second prize at the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
In returning to a Rachmaninov symphony he recorded previously with the Royal Philharmonic (Virgin, 5/90 – nla), Andrew Litton goes...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015
This is the fourth in Järvi’s ‘Sound Project’ series, and the first dedicated to a single composer. Arvo Pärt, in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015
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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