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...
Johannes Pramsohler unearths long-forgotten Baroque gems, then presents them to the world via a superlative premiere recording. It’s now a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2020
Though it garnered enthusiastic reviews elsewhere, the Dudok’s first volume of Haydn’s epoch-making Op 20 quartets slipped through the Gramophone...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020
Game of Tones? I know it’s not the done thing to comment on CD covers, but when an artist has...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2020
Although published in 1901 as Op 36a, Busoni considered his Second Violin Sonata to be his actual Op 1, dismissing...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2020
Did any composer make a bigger splash with their Op 1 than Beethoven? Taking what had hitherto been a small-scale...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020
As Teodor Currentzis remarked about recording Beethoven’s symphonies, there is a danger, even in sets of such exceptional character as...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
Whether or not the music of Mieczysław Weinberg makes further inroads in terms of actual performance, his recorded representation shows...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
It’s almost an indulgence to put three such significant, non-concertante orchestral works by Erkki-Sven Tüür, played by a virtuoso orchestra,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2020
A cultivated rather than hell-for-leather Tchaikovsky Fifth was the first audio-only recording project of Andris Nelsons’s CBSO years (Orfeo, 10/09)....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020
Each time I hear the opening of this symphony – in filmic terms a long slow pan across the frozen...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2020
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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