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...
After 20-year-old Benjamin Grosvenor’s astonishing Decca solo debut album (10/11) comes his first concerto disc, giving us one of the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2012
This is the third CD of Kenneth Fuchs’s orchestral music arising from the enthusiastic partnership of JoAnn Falletta and the...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 11/2012
When reviewing Claus Peter Flor’s Malaysian Philharmonic recording of Dvořák’s Seventh (8/12), I mentioned its close proximity, in climate if...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2012
Delius aficionados will need no reminding from me that this is not the first recording of his Piano Concerto in...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2012
This is a fine recording, with excellent balance. The instruments of the Vienna Philharmonic blend with particular smoothness and the...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 11/2012
Israeli-born, Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital’s repertoire extends from Baroque and Classical music written for mandolin through to adaptations and arrangements...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2012
A pupil of the same Neapolitan conservatory that trained Jommelli and Traetta, Pergolesi packed a lot into a top-flight career...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2012
Triumphantly premiered during the Munich carnival season early in 1775, La finta giardiniera (‘The pretend gardener-maid’) is a typical...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2012
Created for Paris in 1973, then for Milan in 1980 (there’s an Arthaus DVD of a 2006 revival under Gérard...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2012
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka’s unnerving tale of man transformed into a cockroach, is a gift to a composer as imaginative...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall 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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