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...
Booklet notes by Steven Zohn set the scene for this disc – an imaginary Viennese salon concert from October 1801...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2020
From Dennehy to Walshe, Ann Cleare to Andrew Hamilton, a slew of Irish voices have recently caught international attention. Not...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2020
A special joy of this Beethoven anniversary year has been the opportunity to hear performers of immense intelligence and experience...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2020
After a decidedly uneven start to their St Florian recordings of Bruckner’s nine numbered symphonies, Valery Gergiev and the Munich...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2020
Truth, fantasy, boldness and delicacy. Listening to Chinese classical guitarist Xuefei Yang’s latest album is like watching a parade of...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 11/2020
On the cover of this Tchaikovsky Fifth, a smiling Paavo Järvi seems to indicate that all will be well. And...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2020
Here is a disc that proves to be much more than the sum of its parts. At first sight, it...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2020
Like Edward Seckerson, I was greatly impressed by the recent recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Here...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2020
Hard on the heels of John Storgårds’s thrilling account of Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony with the BBC Philharmonic comes another performance...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2020
In addition to the symphony that so markedly influenced Gustav Mahler, Hans Rott (1858-84) composed a number of other orchestral...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2020
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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