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...
There are good things here and Altus has achieved a decent match between two separate acoustics: the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Competition is pretty intense as far as the Lemminkäinen Suite is concerned, not least from Ondine’s own Leif Segerstam (7/96)...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
After the epic outrage and defiance of the ‘war’ symphonies, Nos 7 and 8, Shostakovich’s Ninth seemed deliberately designed to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
There was a time when Schubert’s Great C major Symphony seemed an interpretatively elusive work, which explains why such store...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
This, the third volume of Friedemann Eichhorn’s traversal of the violin concertos of Pierre Rode, takes in his heyday in...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2015
Another month, another complete Daphnis et Chloé. It was only in May that I warmly welcomed the recording by the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
No, I hadn’t either. And my guess is that, unless aware of CPO’s five earlier volumes of Dora Pejačevic´’s music,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
It adds something to journey through this amazing cycle of symphonies in sequence and in relatively quick succession. The recent...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
Ruy Blas is something out of the ordinary, and not only because of its sleek lines and uncommonly fast tempi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
The competition is fierce for these most frequently recorded of all violin concertos, both individually and together. Most of us...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
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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