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 new release from Nicola Benedetti offers a programme inspired by film music with Korngold’s Violin Concerto as the centrepiece,...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 11/2012
Norway’s only full-time professional chamber orchestra is heard to advantage on this disc largely devoted to 20th-century classics for strings....
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 11/2012
The premise of this fascinating disc is that all three composers knew, worked with and respected one another in the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2012
Pletnev has always been respectful of the classicism, the formal ‘correctness’, so often downplayed in Tchaikovsky performances – but here,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2012
After two hearings, this disc provoked two contradictory responses. My initial notes concluded that Trifonov was blessed with fabulous fingers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2012
Yorkshire-born Patric Standford (b1939) was a pupil of Edmund Rubbra and Norman Del Mar at the Guildhall School of Music,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012
Louis Spohr made no concessions to technical limitations in the concertos he wrote for clarinettist Simon Hermstedt, who didn’t ask...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012
Paavo Berglund set down three Sibelius symphony cycles (with the Bournemouth Symphony and Helsinki Philharmonic orchestras, both for EMI, and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
Anthony Marwood has an enviable reputation as a Schumann-player (among those of us who envy such things, at least). His...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012
Geraint Lewis, in his recent Gramophone Collection on Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony, quoted Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s views on the much-maligned composer’s orchestration...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012
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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