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...
Iannis Xenakis is another composer to have received Mode’s long-term advocacy, and this 15th instalment features a first recording for...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2018
Completed towards the end of the Second World War, Dag Wirén’s Third Symphony acknowledges the starker ‘militaristic’ modalities of the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018
Peter Donohoe’s rapturous reception at the 1982 Moscow Competition (see his remarkable blog account) was sparked not least by his...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2018
These three concertos were composed in the early 1830s, while Bennett was still a teenager and a student at the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
Omnivorous as Jiří Bělohlávek was in his repertoire choices, his greatest contribution as a conductor was to the music of...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 03/2018
Estonia’s vexed relationship with Russian power echoes Shostakovich’s unavoidably equivocal world view. The composer spent time in the Baltic seaside...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018
It’s often said (with just cause) that the spirit of Mozart hovers over the 18-year-old Schubert’s Fifth Symphony. Not only...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018
Saint-Saëns’s symphonic poems are rarely gathered together on disc. From the UK, there are strong collections from Charles Dutoit and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018
Those familiar with Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto will know that there is no orchestral introduction. The soloist enters on the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018
It was a nice idea to spice a logical Prokofiev concerto coupling with a trio of transcriptions, the musician who...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018
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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