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...
Given his prowess as trombonist and abilities as conductor, Christian Lindberg could hardly be called a ‘jack of all trades’...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2021
Whereas on the previous disc of music by David Gompper (b1954) that I reviewed (3/19) the three works were all...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2021
The pandemic dampened many musical celebrations last year, but the Zurich Chamber Orchestra – or at least its string players...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2021
A couple of years ago I was much impressed by an account of Catoire’s Piano Quintet led by Bengt Forsberg...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2021
First create your sound palette, then envision the whole. In this new account of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony, Andris Nelsons and...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2021
The 19-year-old Furtwängler made his professional debut conducting the Kaim Orchestra, forerunner to the Munich Philharmonic, in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021
One orchestra and nine conductors, and unlike the recent Bruckner cycle from Berlin (3/20), it’s remarkable how the Concertgebouw players...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2021
Tuned percussion instruments, the marimba in particular, tend to suck any sense of self-importance out of composers writing for them....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2021
Programmes challenging conventional expectations have been a feature of Hilary Hahn’s recording career from the word go. Her debut concerto...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2021
The summa totalis of Karl Richter’s DG recordings (from 1959 to 1980) affords us the greatest sense yet of an...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 02/2021
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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