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...
During his tenure at the helm of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève brought his natural exuberance and taste...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2014
‘The most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today joins forces with “magician-maestro” Gustavo Dudamel,’ trumpet the critics,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
Another take on Mussorgsky’s Pictures – and it would seem that the Slovak Peter Breiner (b1957) doesn’t do things by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2014
Even in an age when Mozart’s final concerto seems to be shedding its valedictory associations, Ronald Brautigam’s approach to the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2014
Mendelssohn performed in Birmingham several times during the 1830s and ’40s – Elijah was composed for the Birmingham Festival –...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2014
The arrow-driven harmonic certainties of Jonathan Nott and the Berlin Philharmonic (in Teldec’s Ligeti Project, 8/02 – nla) get straight...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2014
Little known in the UK, Matthias Georg Kendlinger (b1964) enjoys a significant profile in parts of Western and Central Europe...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2014
To release a disc of the three ‘standard’ and, let’s face it, only chromatic Classical-period trumpet concertos requires some kind...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2014
For some of us, Handel’s Organ Concertos Opp 4 and 7 are among music’s greatest pleasures. What, though, do they...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2014
Reviewing a recent CD containing among other things a suite by Christoph Graupner for recorder and strings (Dacapo, A/13), I...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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