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...
I do hope that this fine new recording will mean that Pancho Vladigerov’s music becomes better known. There are recordings,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s recording of Sibelius’s First Symphony and En saga (3/19) received a string of accolades following its release last...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020
There are American ensembles with a more sustained Shostakovich tradition than the Chicago Symphony but the present recording, taken from...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2020
While consistently light-textured in its scoring for string orchestra, each movement of José Serebrier’s Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) has...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020
A mere matter of months after issuing Symphonies Nos 2 and 4 with the LSO, John Eliot Gardiner completes the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto can be heard as his typically defiant response to a period of exceptional stress and strain. In...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 04/2020
Were this my introduction to Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto, I would come away well pleased. It seems to tick all...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2020
In what might from the outside look rather like a sweeping-up exercise, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy’s Manchester Camerata take...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra return to the Lutosławski symphonies (Nos 1 and 4 were reviewed 2/19)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2020
Written in 1857, Liszt’s Künstlerfestzug was originally planned as a grand pièce d’occasion to accompany the unveiling in Weimar of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley 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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