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...
Mikko Franck and his French Radio Philharmonic turn to César Franck for their first recording for Alpha, coupling the Symphony...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2020
Bram van Sambeek extracts maximum characterisation from the two peaks of the Classical/Romantic bassoon concerto repertoire. Weber revised his 1811...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2020
What was it with the fin de siècle and sinister pierrots? Schoenberg had his moonstruck clown, Stravinsky his Petrushka; and...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2020
Indentured between 1789 and 1806 as director of music to the court of an apparently unmusical and ungrateful prince in...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
I love the analogy Richard Rodney Bennett made when describing his multifaceted career as ‘different rooms, albeit in the same...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2020
Like Ravel and Stravinsky after him, Beethoven thought pianistically even when composing for the orchestra, and he wasn’t averse to...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
Paavo Järvi’s NHK Symphony Orchestra pride themselves on their Central European sound, particularly their cultured, rounded string tone, and perform...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2020
In a recent Gramophone interview (5/20), Thomas Adès conjured the image of Gerald Barry ‘prowling around rehearsals with a metronome...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2020
This is not announced as Vol 1 of a cycle, but Francesco Corti’s booklet note reveals that it is when...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2020
When Franz Welser-Möst’s contract next comes up for renewal in 2027, he will be the longest-serving music director in the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2020
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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