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...
There are some much-appreciated aspects to this release from Alpha Classics. Recorded for the first time is Tartini’s yet to-be-published...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 05/2020
Reviewing his earlier recording of Josef Suk’s Asrael in the context of a Collection (6/18) on this work prompted the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2020
Vasily Petrenko’s Strauss series with the Oslo Philharmonic has been a quiet revelation: three superb albums released with little fanfare...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2020
The thirty-something Moscow-born virtuoso Ivan Pochekin has been a peripatetic recording artist. There’s a locally popular Melodiya album of duets...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020
The opening salvo in Edward Gardner’s Schubert symphony edition (3/19) boded well. Its successor lives up to expectations. These are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020
The two masterpieces Rachmaninov composed at his summer mansion in Lucerne in the mid-1930s make an obvious coupling and have...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2020
All seven Prokofiev symphonies are getting performances these days and Thomas Søndergård has announced plans to present a complete cycle...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2020
Last December Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando was, indefensibly, only the first full opera by a woman on the Vienna State...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 05/2020
‘The most limpid and lyrical music in existence’ was Eric Blom’s verdict on Symphony No 39 in his Master Musicians...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2020
This extremely well-filled SACD presents the heftiest of Mozart’s Salzburg serenades along with an associated march and the evergreen Musical...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
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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