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...
It is over 10 years since I first encountered Emil Mynarski’s music, with his marvellous Second Violin Concerto played by...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018
‘Humans like this music. It entertains them’, Iván Fischer writes, with quizzical humour, in a booklet note for his recording...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018
Here we have Martinů’s piano and violin double concertos performed by two pairs of sisters, which is less gimmicky than...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2018
After his disappointingly urbane account of the Resurrection Symphony, the twilit, childlike world of the Fourth would, on paper, seem...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018
When not playing the trombone (as scintillatingly as anyone else on the planet) or championing Pettersson’s symphonies from the podium,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2018
Giovanni Antonini’s thematically grouped survey of Haydn’s symphonies continues with a pair of works from his Sturm und Drang period...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2018
The opening movement of Elgar’s Second Symphony has brought great diversity of approach over the decades. How to interpret that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2018
Little has been heard in the UK by Moritz Eggert (b1965) during those two decades since he came to prominence,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2018
To complete their Dvořák symphony cycle, Marcus Bosch and the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg turn their attention to the Second. In his...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2018
These new recordings in Gergiev’s Bruckner series derive from a single concert given in the monastery of St Florian. When...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2018
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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