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...
Composers can increase exposure – and income – by promoting orchestral versions of chamber compositions. But orchestras usually employ conductors;...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2014
Nannette Streicher’s new piano was a six-octave godsend for Beethoven. And the next year, 1808, he ran the full gamut...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2014
This is the seventh in Hyperion’s series of Arensky discs, beautifully erasing Rimsky-Korsakov’s write-off (for him, Arensky was doomed to...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
When Jean-Christophe Spinosi backed away from his specialty as a Vivaldi conductor a few years ago, one never envisioned him...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014
‘The Italian Character,’ reads the DVD’s blurb, ‘is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014
In December 1987 Gramophone’s Edward Greenfield warmly reviewed Michala Petri’s landmark recorder version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, at the same...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014
Artist biographies do not usually outweigh the essay in booklets for Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition but it is fair to concede...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014
Not even in the heady days of Maurice André’s voluminous transcriptions of Baroque sonatas and concertos for Erato (all available...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 04/2014
The opening pages of the Sixth Symphony always sound to me like we’re looking at an illuminated manuscript – a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2014
Hearing these two new versions of the Sibelius Violin Concerto prompts the question: is it the last of the great...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014
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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