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...
David Zinman and his expert band give predictably athletic, tightly disciplined performances of two contrasting early Schubert symphonies: the blithe,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012
Hackle-raising stuff from Michi Gaigg. She offers resourceful thinking about the Fifth Symphony – or distasteful re-thinking that destroys a...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 11/2012
Poul Ruders’s Third Symphony stands in the long line of Koussevitzky Foundation commissions that gave us Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2012
A former avant-gardist, Seppo Pohjola (b1965) has transitioned to the mainstream, creating an eclectic and quirky style. On the basis...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
The Canciones negras (1946, orch 1949) comprise the earliest work on Chandos’s new release honouring Xavier Montsalvatge’s largely unhonoured centenary...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2012
Of the many interesting factors that strike home after listening to these fascinating CDs, the close proximity, sound-wise, between Liszt...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2012
‘The poor man’s Prokofiev’ was one notorious dismissal of Kabalevsky, unfair as well as unkind. In later life he was...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/2012
Do you remember the news story a couple of months ago in which a well-meaning parishioner decided to ‘restore’ a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2012
The two composers on this disc belong to what has been called (with tongue in cheek, I suspect) the ‘Third...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2012
It was two decades ago this year that Górecki’s Third Symphony topped the charts, though Classic FM’s much-publicised launch wasn’t...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan 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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