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...
Whoever had the inspired notion to rescue from the vaults these valuable Vaughan Williams performances under the characteristically humane and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
With Robert Simpson as his principal mentor, Matthew Taylor invariably has a firm and often original control of structure. He...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2013
A handy souvenir for anyone attending Boreyko’s concerts in Stuttgart’s Beethovensaal during 2011, this latest instalment is short on distinguishing...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2013
If asked to sum up the impact of Schumann’s late concertante works for solo strings and orchestra, I would say...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2013
Distance doesn’t lend enchantment to the woodwind, pale rather than pungent in a symphony where they play a crucial role....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 10/2013
Slatkin’s recordings of the Second and Third (7/13) symphonies signalled his sure instinct for the Rachmaninov idiom together with the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
Chandos steals a march on its rivals by presenting Prokofiev’s ‘Complete Works for Violin’ in a neat two-disc package. However...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2013
When Penderecki’s Piano Concerto was heard at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2002 it was widely condemned as ‘stale’ and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2013
This latest instalment in CPO’s fascinating Panufnik survey might not contain the composer’s most immediately striking works but they are...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2013
Any composer who numbers Popov’s manic First Symphony and Orff’s apocalyptic oratorio De temporum fine commedia among his favourite works...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2013
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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