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...
Think of La belle époque and I’m not sure Johannes Brahms necessarily springs to mind. Nevertheless, his First Clarinet Sonata,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2019
If you are a fan of The Four Seasons – and its popularity certainly doesn’t stop it from being a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2019
Four years ago, Riccardo Chailly conducted a series of Strauss tone poems in his final London concerts with the Leipzig...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2019
It barely feels as long ago as February that the first volume in Jan Willem de Vriend’s Schubert symphony cycle...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019
David Sawer describes his Rumpelstiltskin – referencing the typically macabre and moralistic Grimms’ fairy tale of that name – as...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2019
Kaija Saariaho (b1952) has come a fair way since the works that established her reputation in the mid-1980s, where the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2019
Trifonov’s Rachmaninov is unlike anyone else’s. Whether that’s down to wilfulness and self-regard or individuality and integrity is open to...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019
The G major and C minor Piano Concertos were last paired on disc by Lang Lang and Nikolaus Harnoncourt in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2019
Summing up Wilhelm Furtwängler’s wartime concerts in Berlin (5/19) I found reason to refer to Michael Gielen’s valedictory appearance at...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2019
How refreshing that Andris Nelsons comes to the Beethoven symphonies with no discernible interpretative axe to grind. He seems unconcerned...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2019
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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