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...
Sleeping Beauty – A Dramatic Symphony? Alarm bells start to ring. One of the greatest classical ballets in the repertoire...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2021
Nikolaus Harnoncourt has already left us memorable, norm-defying sets of Schubert symphonies with the Concertgebouw (Teldec, 12/93) and the Berlin...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2021
Mere weeks after the appearance of René Jacobs’s recording of Schubert’s Second and Third Symphonies with the B’Rock Orchestra, the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2021
What better coupling for Prokofiev’s familiar Fifth Symphony than the 21st by his closest friend? Myaskovsky’s melancholy three-part, one-movement score...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2021
In the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism, the six realms – three good and three evil – delineate a life cycle...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2021
Hyperion keeps pulling obscure Romantic concertos out of the woodwork, this time with two by Armenian composer Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937)....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2021
This is the first release in a cycle of the Bruckner symphonies by Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic, an...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2021
Sunwook Kim’s second recording of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto in a little over three years, with the Staatskapelle Dresden and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2021
When I first heard Ed Bennett’s music several years ago, I was intrigued to hear a composer so adept at...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 01/2021
Multitalented pianist, conductor and former Israel Philharmonic double-bass player Lahav Shani was just 29 when it was announced in the...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2021
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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