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...
Last autumn the Capuçon brothers, Renaud and Gautier, brought out a fine disc of Saint-Saëns’s La Muse et le poète...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2014
A Harnoncourt recording will always leave a reviewer with a full page of notes, but let me go straight to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2014
This is a welcome addition by the Ulster Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta to the recording of Moeran’s orchestral rhapsodies and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014
A very distinctive coupling this, stylised in the extreme and with a keen-eared approach to dynamics that is quite unlike...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Mahler enthusiasts have cause to be grateful to Gilbert Kaplan, the biggest enthusiast of them all, one moreover with the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
This latest Danacord issue is designed as a memorial tribute to the great Danish cellist Erling Blöndahl Bengtsson, who died...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2014
Commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the City of Nottingham, the Second of Alan Bush’s four...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014
I am no sceptic where the filming of concerts is concerned. Given a meticulously prepared shooting script by a director...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2014
When I opened the CD case for this useful coupling of Bruckner’s two ‘nullified’ symphonies I fully expected to find...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Arrangements such as this exceptionally skilful chamber reworking of Bruckner’s Second Symphony by Anthony Payne were meat and potatoes to...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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