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...
Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2014
The Nightingale Quartet’s first volume of Rued Langgaard (6/12) brought to attention a quartet output which, though not unknown, was...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
If any genre is likely to tap the emotional resources of a great composer, it’s the violin concerto – Vivaldi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2014
Perhaps you have observed the recent explosion of Weinberg recordings and are wondering whether the pendulum may have swung too...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2014
Despite the steady number of works that have appeared on various labels, Augusta Read Thomas (b1964) has not had the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2014
From Claudio Abbado to Günter Wand, this greatest of all unfinished masterpieces has repeatedly appealed to great conductors nearing the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
If their brutalisation of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto is anything to go by, Valery Gergiev’s partnership with Denis Matsuev threatens...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
The lasting impression that lingers on from this disc is of a perfect blending of eight voices to complement an...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014
Marc-André Hamelin’s normally genial features cloud at the description of him as a ‘super virtuoso’. For him such apparent praise...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2014
However uncompromising its moral and ideological outlook, the self-evident musical distinction of Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony at once attracted the attention...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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