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...
If that really is restraint I’m hearing inside these performances of Nielsen’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies from Sakari Oramo and...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2014
Leevi Madetoja was a hard-working composer-conductor-teacher-critic whose strongest claims to fame are his two operas, The Ostrobothnians and Juha. His...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2014
Recently I was introduced to Handel’s life-affirming Op 4 Organ Concertos played on a modern concert grand (2/14). Now, like...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2014
The coupling of the Grieg and Schumann piano concertos was long dominated by the virtually ideal partnership of Stephen Kovacevich...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 05/2014
Both previous instalments in this valuable series (reviewed by Edward Greenfield in 11/10 and 4/11) boasted more than their fair...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2014
First, a happy observation. This is the fourth CD of Dvorák’s Sixth that I’ve reviewed in the last two or...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2014
The incidence of composers at home in both classical and rock genres is hardly a recent phenomenon, yet the ease...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014
Mario Venzago’s vision of a leaner, trimmer Bruckner – with big-boned solemnity discreetly airbrushed away – aims to repoint the...
Reviewed in issue 05/2014
The music of Walter Braunfels (1882-1954), half-Jewish and ardently Catholic, disappeared from view in the middle of the last century,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2014
With all of the recordings of the Brahms and Debussy pieces, might the main attraction here be Janet Baker? No....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014
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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