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...
The Vienna Philharmonic rarely has call for a saxophone quintet. Another incidental pleasure of this Salzburg Festival matinee film is...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2019
The Baltic Chamber Orchestra from St Petersburg follow up their canny pairing of Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony greatly...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
In a passionate and well-observed booklet note, Timothy Redmond asks why no recording of Jonathan Dove’s orchestral music has existed...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
The Labèque sisters have dipped their collective musical feet in minimalist waters many times in recent years, as heard on...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2019
As with previous instalments in Andris Nelsons’s Bruckner cycle (Symphonies Nos 3, 4 and 7), this latest addition combines performances...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2019
The coupling of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Double Concerto isn’t that common on disc but they’re a natural pairing,...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2019
I wish this disc could have accommodated a complete Miraculous Mandarin rather than just the Concert Suite, particularly as Susanna...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2019
Fabio Bonizzoni’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with La Risonanza (9/18) gave no clue as to how many would...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2019
Watch closely during the audience shots on this taping of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s Lucerne Festival debut in 2017 and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2019
In the 1960s, ever speculative, Stockhausen proposed the idea of ‘coloured silence’. With, say, a wind player, this meant blowing...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2019
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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