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...
This is not the first distinguished Onyx release from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its young Ukrainian conductor but it...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2014
The Sinfonia di Sfere, Panufnik’s Fifth, is of course the main attraction here. It’s a complex work architecturally, the ‘spheres’...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2014
My reaction when asked to review this disc was a somewhat uncritical ‘hurray’, having immensely enjoyed the first volume of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2014
The songs and madrigals of early-17th-century Italy are dramatic microcosms – arias from unwritten operas that carry the emotional and...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2014
One of the most durable virtues of Harry Christophers and The Sixteen is the unfussy fluency of their musical endeavour...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2014
Daniel Barenboim’s celebration of the Wagner bicentenary culminated in the completion of a new Ring cycle, produced by Guy Cassiers,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2014
A critic reviewing Mahan Esfahani’s 2013 Wigmore Hall recital of short pieces by Byrd, Bach and Ligeti (from which this...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2014
The solemnities of Good Friday, enshrined with such intensity and contemplative sincerity by Haydn in his Seven Last Words, are...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2014
There are a few contemporary arrangements on these discs which render the title ‘Complete Works for Cello and Piano’ possibly...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 06/2014
A cellist who tends towards introversion; a fortepianist who tends the other way. Put them together and something magical happens...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2014
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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