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...
The Chandos/Järvi/Svendsen survey moves backwards to the late 1860s and early 1870s, when the newly Leipzig-graduated composer was travelling Europe...
Reviewed in issue 07/2013
So much in the opening paragraph of Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony mirrors the Fifth: only it’s the dark side of the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2013
The Sixth is the most egregious of Schubert’s eight symphonies. With an opening movement which could pass muster as one...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2013
The 2009 release of the Second Symphony was a reminder of Leonard Slatkin’s sympathy for Rachmaninov’s music and its emotional...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
For the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, which launched its own label recently with Mahler’s perhaps too-often recorded First Symphony (4/13), a...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2013
Just when you thought that last season’s Mahler centenary had exhausted the possibilities of new recruits to the late Romantics,...
Reviewed by Ken Smith in issue: 07/2013
Sadly, even the name, let alone the music, of Viktor Kalabis (1923-2006) will be unknown to most readers, yet he...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013
Holmboe’s reputation may rest ultimately on his symphonies and string quartets but he was prolific in a vast array of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2013
Titling this disc ‘Wunderkammer(konzert)’, with a Joseph Cornell collection of miniature found objects as cover image, flags up Kenneth Hesketh’s...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2013
In arranging Grieg’s violin and piano sonatas for violin and chamber orchestra, Henning Kraggerud and Bernt Simen Lund (a member...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 07/2013
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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