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...
On this recording, Tasmin Little, an acknowledged standard-bearer for, and specialist in, British music, gives us a feast of works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2014
Now approaching his 90th year, Sir Neville Marriner is still adding new material to his vast discography in collaboration with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
These recordings come from Turnage’s brief LSO residency early in 2013 which included the world premiere of a major five-movement...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
Though a devoted fan of Leopold Stokowski for more years than I can remember, the coupling of the names Stokowski...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
The second volume of Roth’s survey offers two of Strauss’s finest tone-poems and one relative failure. Macbeth was the first...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 01/2014
It is almost 20 years since I reviewed a Gergiev recording of the work that can come across as Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
Mstislav Rostropovich will always rule the roost in ‘his’ concertos (multiple accounts of the First remain in circulation and his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2014
Trevor Harvey in these pages once described Schumann-conducting as ‘a department of conducting all on its own, needing a judgement...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
You almost imagine that Saint-Saëns had the Capuçon brothers in mind when he considerately added to his repertoire of solo...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
Volume 1 in Leonard Slatkin’s Ravel series for Naxos deservedly found favour with my colleague Geoffrey Norris back in December...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
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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