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...
While the Berlin Philharmonic’s Bruckner tradition began to be documented in the 78 era, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Seventh...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021
Born to British parents in the USA in 1927, Thomas Wilson moved to the United Kingdom as an infant and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2021
The prime purpose of this box-set is undoubtedly to document Andris Nelsons’s accounts of Tchaikovsky’s last three (numbered) symphonies taped...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021
For some years Dmitry Kitaenko has been revisiting his core repertoire, often in the company of the Gürzenich Orchestra, which...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021
‘Gusto in art is power or passion defining any object’, wrote William Hazlitt. Gusto defines these performances – better than...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2021
Piazzolla never employed the saxophone in any of his own various tango ensembles, most likely because its reedy tone would...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2021
The first volume of Mozart’s violin concertos from Aislinn Nosky turns out to be two-thirds reissues, the Third Concerto and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2021
David Matthews continues to build on the rich British symphonic tradition, offering a principled alternative to those 20th-century styles that...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2021
Bergamo-born violin virtuoso Pietro Locatelli once described in a 1711 letter how, to improve his violin-playing, he used to practise...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2021
The Croation pianist Goran Filipec – whose contributions thus far to the Naxos Liszt series include sets of the Paganini...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2021
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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