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...
In the last movement of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, Patricia Kopatchinskaja takes the composer’s ben marcato seriously, using heavy accentuation...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
With these two volumes, Adam Fischer completes his cycle of Mozart’s symphonies; the complete set is also now available cheaply...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
Tamsin Waley-Cohen speaks in a booklet-note of the coloratura temperament of the solo violin line in Mendelssohn’s D minor Concerto,...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
Rudolf Kempe belonged to that increasingly rare breed of conductors for whom musical mood and content rather than individual temperament...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
Alvin Lucier creates music about the sound of music. In Exploration of the House (2005) he remakes Beethoven’s overture The...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
The usual coupling for the Mathis Symphony and Symphonic Metamorphosis is the Nobilissima visione suite, though the Trauermusik and other...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2014
Two ‘London’ Symphony recordings arrive emblazoned with icons of the city: Tower Bridge, largely obscured by Thomas Fey, and Parliament’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2014
The Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen is preparing to parachute into enemy terrain. It’s October 2011 and To Zeitblom, his...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2014
Hannu Lintu’s Ondine recording of Enescu’s Second Symphony (10/12) was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award. Some years ago I interviewed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
Brett Dean’s violin concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing was composed in 2006, revised the following year and won...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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