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...
Bach, performed on a modern copy of a period instrument: nothing new there. Until you discover the instrument in question...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015
Widor’s ubiquitous Toccata from Symphony No 5, in spite of being his defining work, is by no means representative of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2015
The exquisite chaconne from the final concerto of Vivaldi’s La stravaganza may be worth the entry price alone. But this...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2015
Captured live at Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony serve up a Tchaikovsky pairing of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
It’s taken nearly a decade for Pentatone to release a follow-up to its first Strauss disc with Marek Janowski, a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2015
This is the first in a new series of six CDs from Naxos devoted to lesser-known Sibelius works and featuring...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Svetlanov, Muti and Ashkenazy have all, perforce, included the First Symphony in their complete Scriabin symphony surveys, but otherwise it...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015
‘Lean of tone and impetuous’ is how Richard Wigmore described Antonello Manacorda’s coupling of Schubert’s Third and Eighth symphonies with...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
Between 2003 and 2006, the Berlin Philharmonic devoted two concerts each season to what was in effect a Harnoncourt Schubert...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2015
‘Spiritual and not sentimental, intellectual and not emotional’ were Schoenberg’s performance values, according to the conductor Hermann Scherchen, and by...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015
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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