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...
This is the first all-instrumental disc in Harry Christophers’s series of recordings with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2013
No sooner had I finished praising to the skies Frank Peter Zimmermann’s wonderful new account of Hindemith’s great Violin Concerto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013
Take three concertos composed for the harpsichord and the stylistic range of post-war music would most likely be made evident....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013
‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013
‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013
The Dvořák is the one great Romantic concerto previously missing from the discography of Anne-Sophie Mutter and her record label...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
Pascal Dusapin is among the most-recorded of present-day European composers and this new disc makes available three concertante works drawn...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013
Buyer beware: if you snapped up DG’s Claudio Abbado Symphony Edition, released earlier this year to celebrate the great man’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
Britten’s masterly Violin Concerto really seems to have come into its own in recent years. I first made its acquaintance...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
There are one or two magical moments here. The most obvious wafts in for the coda of the Third Symphony’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013
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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