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...
I have to hand it to Yannick Nézet-Séguin: this is without question one of the finest Pathétiques to have come...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013
No beating about the bush: Vladimir Jurowski’s marvellously articulate, thrillingly combustible 2011 live recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth has nothing to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013
Boris Berezovsky’s espousal of the Second Concerto is interesting in that he goes for the original version rather than the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2013
Coming hard on the heels of Gustavo Dudamel’s first CD release with his own Los Angeles Philharmonic (5/13), this Strauss...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013
As the motto phrase on cellos and basses opening No 4 rises out pianissimo against a pianissimo background of violas,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013
Right from the off, things augur well. The Spring Symphony’s opening Andante un poco maestoso is also, usefully, con moto,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013
The two works on this CD feature the pianist Nicolas Hodges as soloist and are related in a number of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2013
Martin Fröst has already recorded a fine, outgoing version of Mozart’s Concerto in its original form for basset clarinet. A...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2013
Mahler once said that conductors would take the central Scherzo of the Fifth Symphony – the fulcrum of the piece...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2013
Given the level of insight and illumination that Jonathan Nott’s Mahler cycle has thus far thrown up, these latest instalments...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2013
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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