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...
Mirabile dictu: a release of four Havergal Brian symphonies – cause for celebration in itself – two of which have...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2015
The eye is a great deceiver. Watch these Lucerne Festival Brahms performances and you might think you are in the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
As co-founder of the London Sinfonietta in 1968, David Atherton has been responsible for several Birtwistle premieres down the decades:...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2015
The booklet’s claim ‘inspired by William Shakespeare’ is only really true of the Roméo et Juliette excerpt and the Lear...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Chandos’s new release continues a potential Berlioz cycle from Sir Andrew, following his well-received Overtures disc with the Bergen Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
Listening to this entrancing and yet deeply affecting performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, it is easy see why, with all...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
As ever with Martin Haselböck, the overall agenda on this disc centres firmly on historic performance practice. After his series...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Recorded live in Riga in front of an exceptionally well-behaved audience, soloist Thomas Gould (leader of the Aurora Orchestra and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
No sooner had I filed my review of Thomas Gould’s Riga version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (see below) than...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2015
It is rare to hear celebrated pianists playing instruments from an earlier age, which is why these performances by Martha...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne 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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