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...
Young Uzbek conductor Aziz Shokhakimov became music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in 2021. This is their first...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2023
Is Schumann’s Koncertstück for four horns the most life-affirming work in the repertoire? Perhaps not. But as you’re listening to...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2023
Marek Janowski and his Dresdeners immediately score over virtually all the competition by offering the Unfinished and Ninth on a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023
Make no mistake, this is a classy release. Hardly surprising that, given the artists involved, but I headline the cliché...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023
The peal and clatter of D major, resplendent with horns and trumpets and the bright resonance of open strings, resounds...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2023
Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated push to complete their recording of Mozart’s entire output for keyboard...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2023
Like so much of what I’ve heard of Santtu’s work of late, this Mahler Symphony No 2 is decidedly hit...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023
Locatelli recordings often come in the form of complete opus numbers, so it makes a nice change to encounter a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2023
Paul von Klenau (1883-1946) was a Danish composer who went from writing like Bruckner to writing like Schoenberg, living much...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2023
Hitchcock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams – director-composer pairings among whom writer Michael Beek nominates as co-companions Hayao Miyazaki and...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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