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...
Anyone looking for an introduction to the music of Vaughan Williams ought to look no further than this new release...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2019
Avet Rubeni Terterian’s relatively early death in 1994 may not be the only reason we haven’t heard more of him....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019
One of these days a Mariss Jansons recording will arrive that will confound my expectations. This, alas, is not it....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
Two veteran conductors from the period-instrument movement revisit Schumann’s symphonies with modern-instrument orchestras. Coincidentally, in reviewing Philippe Herreweghe’s earlier traversals...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2019
These exceptionally beautiful reappraisals are likely to divide listeners. Bruno Philippe’s command of the instrument can scarcely be gainsaid –...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2019
The received wisdom is that Messiaen grew up at the keyboard, so to speak, but according to his teacher Marcel...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2019
Rather as he did for his controversial (and somewhat disappointing) account of Das Lied von der Erde, Adám Fischer offers...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
In his detailed booklet note, Jimmy López Bellido writes that the First Symphony (2016) was commissioned as part of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2019
Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in August 1999 as a latter-day ‘Ode to Joy’ to mark the close of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 12/2019
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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