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...
Charles Burney hit the nail on the head. The Op 76 quartets, he wrote, were proof of Haydn’s enduringly youthful...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
These are closely miked studio accounts, with little sense of the 300-seat Snape Maltings acoustic in which they were recorded,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2020
Highly prolific composers from Mozart to Martinů have a capacity to pull flair and distinction out of the bag just...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020
The LA Phil had more than a major birthday to celebrate at this concert, which marked 100 years to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2020
I was wowed by Augustin Hadelich’s richly characterised and subtly coloured account of the Brahms Concerto (Warner, 6/19), and his...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
‘Affinity’ by name, affinity by nature, Sharon Isbin’s terrific latest recording evinces a wonderful talent for making fully hers what...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020
There’s Venetian intrigue here, a touch of smoke and mirrors. The booklet cover itself raises two questions. ‘Martin Fröst Vivaldi’...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
After his avian double bill of The Firebird and The Golden Cockerel with the RLPO (Onyx, 1/19), Vasily Petrenko has...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2020
Quietly and without fuss, Moscow-born Finnish-resident Dima Slobodeniouk has been rising through the ranks with posts in Galicia and Lahti...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
Onyx’s 2016 release of James MacMillan’s Symphony No 4 featured this large-scale single-movement work alongside the composer’s Violin Concerto. Here...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
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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