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...
As with Martin Haselböck’s fascinating period-instrument series of Liszt tone-poems for NCA, his set of the six Hungarian Rhapsodies for...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2013
Archival reclamations are rarely as well documented as this one. In addition to helpful contextual notes by Andrew Farach-Colton, the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2013
While Hindemith’s concertos for violin, cello and especially viola have been gathered in usually single-disc collections, the five works for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2013
Drostan Hall here conducts without the gestures that shape phrases, generate intensity and give meaning to music. His metrical beat...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013
Gounod’s complete works for pedal piano and orchestra is not something the musical world has been waiting for with bated...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
Here’s a welcome companion release to ICA Classics’ recent restoration (8/12) of Boult’s blistering Elgar First from the 1976 Proms....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2013
Marek Janowski’s Bruckner cycle, of which this is the last instalment, has enjoyed a good press around these parts, but...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 12/2013
This programme of Britten’s music for strings includes a few surprises. It is a boon to us today that the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 12/2013
This is indeed a splendid recording of the Concerto. The Gewandhaus Orchestra sound bright and resplendent in the great D...
Reviewed in issue 12/2013
Cellos and basses laying the foundation for the first movement of K595 don’t only articulate the harmony. In this performance...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013
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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