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...
Michael Oliver described Pettersson’s Second Violin Concerto (1977 79) in these pages as ‘perplexing but absorbing, infuriatingly chaotic but somehow...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2019
For once the title does not deceive. Presented here is a version of the two-part, five-movement symphonic poem which Mahler...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019
On this marvellous Leclair concerto programme Leila Schayegh plays Nos 2 and 6 from each of Leclair’s Opp 7 and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019
In his booklet-note introduction to these stand-alone concert works Danny Elfman asks the question so often asked, namely why it...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2019
Jaap van Zweden took up his post as music director of the New York Philharmonic at the start of this...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2019
Copland’s score for the ballet Grohg dates from the time of his studies with Nadia Boulanger in the early 1920s....
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2019
Back in the 1990s, Walter Braunfels’s 1920 opera The Birds was one of the most glorious rediscoveries in Decca’s ‘Entartete...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2019
Augustin Hadelich’s performance of Brahms’s Violin Concerto abounds with subtle detail. Listen, for example, to the way he digs into...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2019
Leonard Bernstein’s recording of The Sweet Psalmist of Israel helped to keep his name alive but the music of Paul...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2019
From the early days of its work with Klemperer, Wand and Rosbaud, and then the ’60s tenure of Christoph von...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2019
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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