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...
Goodness, how spoilt for choice we are becoming in this repertoire! The fourth instalment in Andrew Manze’s Vaughan Williams symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2019
Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle give us early and late Strauss in this beautifully programmed set, recorded during concerts...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2019
How Schubert’s Fifth is played (and heard) in concert depends heavily on where it’s placed (Sibelius’s Seventh is another symphony...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2019
Edward Gardner and the orchestra of which he was formerly principal guest conductor move backwards through the 19th century, from...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019
British audiences may best remember Jamaican-born Andrew Gourlay as assistant to Mark Elder at the Hallé or for his conducting...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2019
You would surely expect an Italian to tap into the heat and ardour of Tchaikovsky’s fate-fuelled Fourth Symphony – but...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019
Mendelssohn never intended for his 12 string symphonies to be published. Composed from around 1821, when he was just on...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2019
Reviewing Vänskä’s recording of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony (6/18) I once again raised the issue of subjectivity and objectivity in this...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2019
Mauritz Stiller is credited with discovering Greta Garbo but before he went to Hollywood he directed the first Swedish blockbuster,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2019
The seventh volume of Giovanni Antonini’s projected Haydn symphony cycle turns to works with theatrical connections. Poor old Symphony No...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2019
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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