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...
Saint-Saëns was just 15 when he wrote his A major Symphony (1850), and while it’s not notably inventive, the workmanship...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Can it really be only four years since Haydn’s Symphony No 81 finally appeared in a period-instrument recording? And can...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2020
Among the most prominent of younger Finnish composers, Perttu Haapanen (b1972) now has a substantial catalogue and this Ondine release...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
Ondine’s traversal of orchestral music by Heino Eller (1887-1970), in the company of Olari Elts with the Estonian National Symphony...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2020
I wasn’t expecting Rachel Barton Pine to be such a persuasive advocate for Khachaturian’s much-maligned Violin Concerto. She’s not a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Mark Elder and the Hallé’s Debussy recordings for the orchestra’s own label have, until now, been centred round Colin Matthews’s...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2020
What a wonderful symphony this is, its mood not unlike that of some blustery day in the high hills when...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2020
For decades it’s been fashionable for pianists, or pianist-conductors, to lead the concertos of Mozart and Beethoven from the keyboard,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2020
Beethoven represents the greatest challenge, said Marek Janowski in a recent interview: quite a claim for an 80-year-old conductor with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
The ‘Beethoven 2020’ compilers at DG have made a left-field choice in their inclusion of the Egmont music from Claudio...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
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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