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 Seventh and Ninth Symphonies of Vaughan Williams are perhaps the least likely to find their way into concert programmes;...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 07/2019
Pierre Boulez – no conductor of Tchaikovsky – used to give performances that rendered a pocket score redundant. There was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2019
‘Why compose violin and orchestra rhapsodies after Tchaikovsky’s opera and ballet music?’ asks Guy Braunstein in his booklet note to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2019
This disc begins with a beautiful reading by Olwyn Fouéré of Yeats’s heartbreaking ‘The Cloths of Heaven’, a poem Tavener...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2019
This is a very attractive pairing of two early 20th-century works distinguished by the opulence of their orchestral textures. Szymanowski’s...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2019
Sakari Oramo has recorded precious little Sibelius since his time in Birmingham but don’t think the repertoire on this disc...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019
Christian Thielemann’s 60th birthday present to himself is a set of the four Schumann symphonies, which he toured with the...
Reviewed by Libby McPhee in issue: 07/2019
Having impressed earlier this year with a great Great C major (2/19), Heinz Holliger and his Swiss chamber players go...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019
One concerto, one song-cycle, one refashioned slice of an orchestral work from Kaija Saariaho and another case of the composer’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2019
Piazzolla on Baroque period instruments? I was somewhat sceptical before slipping the CD into the player, but my doubts were...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2019
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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