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 that there’s generally a reason why flashy early 19th-century miniatures penned by their era’s virtuoso soloists haven’t made it...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2020
Distant Light is surely the most-recorded violin concerto by a living composer, with almost enough versions listed on the streaming...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2020
In a brief but perspicacious essay on the Tchaikovsky symphonies, Hans Keller argues that the composer’s ‘individual contribution to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2020
Following his well-regarded series of Debussy recordings for BIS, Lan Shui’s latest release finds the Hangzhou-born conductor equally at home...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
Here’s a handsome Straussian showcase from Krzysztof Urbański and the rebranded NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – although these live recordings were...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2020
It’s a while since someone had the bright idea of bagging a multi-maestro Shostakovich symphony cycle from Mikhail Pletnev’s Russian...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2020
Like all great symphonists, Philip Sawyers approaches symphonic form from a different direction in each work. Nos 1 (2004; 2/11)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
I might have predicted that this of all the Mahler symphonies would chime with Osmo Vänskä’s very particular gifts as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2020
‘Beethoven’s World’ proclaims the jewel case of an entertaining, offbeat programme no one could have predicted. Active in and around...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2020
Although both symphonies by the ethnomusicologist, broadcaster and composer Eivind Groven (1901-77) have been recorded before, this is the first...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2020
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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