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...
Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024
These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024
It is a curious feature of Olli Mustonen the composer that, rather like Stravinsky, he has written relatively little for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
This account of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 follows Il Pomo d’Oro’s recording of No 41, the Jupiter (4/23); no doubt...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is most commonly coupled on recordings with the Clarinet Quintet or with a complementary concerto by another...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
The latest stop on Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated traversal of Mozart’s complete output for keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra made a wise choice when it elected Maxim Emelyanychev as its principal conductor. He’s a fine...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2024
The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 01/2024
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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