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...
François Leleux’s first album with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra flanks Gounod’s Petite Symphonie for nine wind instruments with Bizet’s Symphony...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2020
Whenever I listen to the First Symphony I am mindful of how dramatically Bernstein started as he meant to go...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020
Here’s a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto that conveys a palpable sense of occasion – and with good reason, as...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2020
Martha Argerich returns for the umpteenth time to Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, a work she has championed throughout her career...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2020
It is a tribute to the quality of Stephen Hough’s musicianship that the new cycle’s most memorable performance should be...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2020
This disc will divide listeners. There are many who, no doubt, will find the performances exciting. Certainly, at no point...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2020
This makes for an intriguing listen straight after DG’s American recording of Thomas Adès’s new Piano Concerto – not least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
Readers may recall reports of an amusing incident at the Wiener Staatsoper back in 2016 when Jonas Kaufmann was ‘stood...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2020
‘Because it’s there’ was George Mallory’s response as to why he was climbing Everest, yet it might equally apply to...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
Konstantin Lifschitz is the latest pianist to offer a Beethoven cycle to tie in with the composer’s 250th-anniversary year. These...
Reviewed by Jed Distler 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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