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...
Dang Thai Son nearly shot to fame in 1980 by winning the 10th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the first...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018
I barely recognise the symphony I know and love as being wild and wonderful, elemental, fantastical, startling, from this beautifully...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018
On the reverse of the accompanying booklet (of which more anon) much is made of the Gürzenich Orchestra’s association with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2018
All three composers were (or are) career academics, but it’s notable how Paul Patterson’s concerto of 2013 wants most to...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2018
ABC’s press release puts it neatly on the line: ‘The Australian Chamber Orchestra and ABC Classics present the first Australian-produced...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2018
Don’t approach Krzysztof Penderecki’s Christmas Symphony expecting sleigh bells and festive frolics. It’s a dark, sombre work, more ‘Four Horsemen...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2018
The recordings on this two-CD set originate from a concert at the Salzburg Festival celebrating Riccardo Muti’s 75th birthday. Both...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2018
Sir Neville Marriner, who was originally to have conducted this recording, had a connection to Elgar’s Violin Concerto, as he...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2018
Seiji Ozawa is 82 and Martha Argerich is 76, yet they go at Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto like a pair...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2018
Late, late, Bartók – the pair of masterpieces that could and would have turned his fortunes around during his final...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2018
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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