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...
Before conducting Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony in December 2019, Zubin Mehta put his finger on the ‘unbelievable flexibility’ of the modern...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2020
Three of the works on this superbly performed and recorded CD are purely orchestral and could be described as tone...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2020
By no means synonymous with new music, Andris Nelsons has yet maintained the Boston Symphony’s illustrious track record for commissions...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2020
That Heinz Winbeck (1946-2019) was relatively unknown outside his native Germany only confirms the lack of recognition accorded Austro-German symphonism...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2020
If Ottavio Dantone and his Accademia Bizantina aren’t already ringing bells of recognition in your heads for the many fine...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2020
Following Daniel Lozakovich’s acclaimed DG debut (8/18), this Tchaikovsky album brings his artistry into sharper focus. The Concerto was recorded...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2020
This Sibelius Fourth reminded me of the reaction to the symphony’s first performance in April 1911 from the critic Bis,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2020
The main work in Jun Märkl and the Malmö Symphony’s survey of Saint-Saëns rarities is the Act 3 ballet from...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2020
Let me say straight away that Vänskä is temperamentally far better suited to the pristine, childlike world of the Fourth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2020
Fernand de La Tombelle (1854-1928), the subject of Palazzetto Bru Zane’s latest composer portrait, was best known in his lifetime...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2020
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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