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...
Ning Feng’s account of the Tchaikovsky is notably elegant. The fast, high passages sound wonderfully clear and pure, and the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2014
We are not lacking top-drawer versions of these two probing, Rostropovich-inspired masterpieces, not least from the great cellist himself on...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014
Those who admire the intelligent, direct and stylishly lean virtuosity that Maurizio Pollini has long brought to Brahms’s Second Concerto...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014
The composer formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg here releases his second collaboration with the Philharmonia, Ashkenazy and flautist Emily...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2014
It is often the case that the first symphonic essay of any aspiring composer tends to be long. Nevertheless, Bax’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2014
This recording of Aho’s 15th, and I think still latest, Symphony has been a while coming – the concert premiere,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014
Signum has done us a great service in making available this recording of the reduced version of The Veil of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2014
Awareness of the Terezín composers over the last 25 years reaches a culmination in this documentary DVD companion to the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2014
Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, is the way in...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2014
The affecting, chilling bleakness of ‘Gute Nacht’ immediately suggests that this is going to be a Winterreise of vision and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris 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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