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...
Performances of Joseph Haydn’s two cello concertos always seem to be about the fast outer movements, but these recordings by...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2024
Richard Strauss once suggested that Elektra should be conducted like Mendelssohn’s ‘fairy music’. And if you’ve ever wondered what such...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2024
Smart coupling. Two more contrasting takes on Maeterlinck’s symbolist drama would be hard to imagine: the Schoenberg heated and densely...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024
Eric Coates is a composer to whom one returns in the sure knowledge that the spirits will be lifted, the...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
What is at stake in Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, writes Volker Hagedorn in an excellent booklet essay, is nothing less...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2024
The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition includes three full versions of the composer’s Third Symphony, all of which have now...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2024
In 2015 Jonathan Biss asked five stylistically diverse composers to write concertos that respectively responded to each of Beethoven’s five....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
There are not many successful works for string quartet and orchestra – the concertos by Martinů and Benjamin Lees; best...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Kalevi Aho has over 40 concertos to his credit, for every standard orchestral instrument except piccolo, bass trombone, celesta and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel (b1993) has been quietly collecting excellent reviews in these pages ever since the release...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2024
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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