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...
All three works by the Lancastrian Gordon Crosse (b1937) on this enterprising release were penned during the summer and autumn...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2014
These Brahms performances derive from the Brahms and Szymanowski cycle which Gergiev and the LSO toured in the latter half...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2014
It’s clear that Augustin Dumay has a close rapport with his Japanese orchestra. Throughout the Serenade the players shape the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
The best recordings of the Brahms concertos are collaborative ventures in which the finest pianists are matched by the finest...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 01/2014
With such an oft-recorded work as the Beethoven Violin Concerto it’s understandable that performers will search for a new angle....
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2014
Edward Gardner is fast proving himself able to persuade just about any orchestra to follow his lead with precision and...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2014
‘Fantastical and far-fetched’ was how one 18th-century writer described the music of CPE Bach, whose most personal music epitomises the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2014
Logic suggests that DVD works best for stagings of operas, CD for studio recordings. Glyndebourne has therefore taken a risk...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014
Over the decades, Simon Boccanegra has not been recorded blithely. Major studio-made sets capture each successive generation of Verdians –...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
Phaéton – normally styled Phaëton – was first performed at the new palace of Versailles in January 1683, transferring to...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence 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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