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...
A disc of Mozart piano concertos recorded in concert by Martha Argerich with Claudio Abbado and Orchestra Mozart was always...
Reviewed in issue 03/2014
Ingrid Fliter received rave reviews for her two all-Chopin discs for EMI – that of the Waltzes (12/09) remains among...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2014
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c1620/23 1680) spent most of his career occupying prestigious appointments at the Viennese court of Emperor Leopold...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2014
The well-established son of a famous conductor and Wagnerian (Armin Jordan), Philippe Jordan’s Wagner from America and Europe has already...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2014
Founded in 2012 and named after Cesti’s opera for the wedding festivities of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2014
Not long ago I was praising Richard Strauss’s early (1887) Violin Sonata, attractively played by Tasmin Little and Piers Lane,...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2014
Coupling Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht with his Second Chamber Symphony brings out contrasts as great as any this always provocative composer...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2014
Fourteen sonatas, three concertos and five works for solo cello show what a presence the instrument was in Julius Röntgen’s...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2014
Volume 4 in Francesco La Vecchia’s ambitious Respighi series for Brilliant Classics launches in crisply invigorating style with the irresistible...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014
Starting as the impassioned solo violinist in a smoky, seductive performance of Ravel’s Tzigane, Thomas Zehetmair then conducts the Orchestre...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014
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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