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...
He’s cultivated and urbane. David Zinman coasts along feeling no undercurrents within No 5. For him, Schubert remains the teenager...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 03/2013
From the very first bars of Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto you sense that this disc is going to be exhilarating...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013
While it must be acknowledged that ominous, despondent images of mortality haunt The Isle of the Dead, this performance of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 03/2013
Prokofiev’s violin concertos have been strongly represented on disc since the mid-1930s when Joseph Szigeti and Jascha Heifetz took up...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013
Paganini’s Fifth Concerto, the last he composed, is preserved only in the form of a solo part, which, however, contains...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 03/2013
Despite the best efforts of Yehudi Menuhin in championing Mendelssohn’s Concerto in D minor, the youthful work has never caught...
Reviewed by K Smith in issue: 03/2013
Over the years there have been a number of recordings in various guises from Korngold’s incidental music to Much Ado...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2013
Most of the one-movement concerto-rhapsodies Aram Khachaturian manufactured in the 1960s are less familiar than the concertos he composed for...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2013
Conceived in conjunction with a summer 2012 installation at London’s Science Museum, the Philharmonia’s ‘Universe of Sound Holst The Planets’...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2013
Haydn’s first symphonies for his new employer, Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, form a group of three for which the Germans...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2013
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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