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...
Thomas Rösner’s new recording with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra presents two works each by a pair of 20th-century French composers...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2020
Which way will they turn next? Giovanni Antonini and his Italian period-instrument band here present an early, a middle and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2020
Last year the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin made their debut on Pentatone (hopping over from Harmonia Mundi) with the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2020
Subtitled American Four Seasons, Glass’s Violin Concerto No 2 deviates from Vivaldi’s well-known work in that each movement avoids portraying...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2020
Yundi has been associated with Chopin ever since he became the youngest-ever winner of the eponymous competition in Warsaw in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2020
Before one gets too excited at the tagline ‘9 world premiere recordings’ on this all-Cherubini disc from Riccardo Chailly and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
The word ‘chivalrous’ invariably comes to mind with the opening measures of Bruckner’s Sixth: knights errant galloping towards new adventures,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2020
Since 1935, when both the Linz and Vienna editions of Bruckner’s First Symphony were published by Robert Haas, conductors and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2020
It’s unfortunate timing for Hyperion that its new disc of the Symphonie fantastique follows hot on the heels of Les...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2020
Justin Heinrich Knecht’s five-movement Portrait musical de la Nature, ou Grande Simphonie (1783) begins with an evocation of Arcadian bliss...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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...
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.