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...
Nelson Freire hasn’t made a commercial recording of Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, which makes this radio recording from 1986 all...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
It’s third time around for Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Rachmaninov symphonies. Indeed, it’s difficult to think of any active musician more completely at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2017
The piano and orchestra are on an equal footing throughout Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody, meaning that the best performances...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
Olli Mustonen’s extreme interventionism is a known quantity by now, and it might be thought that of all composers Prokofiev – himself an inveterate exhibitionist –...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2017
Karl von Ordonez (or Carlo d’Ordoñez, among various spellings; 1734‑86) was a member of the minor Spanish nobility but spent his life...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017
One and a half discs here present Mozart’s piano concertos in their stripped-down forms for piano with string quartet, thus...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017
Last November David Threasher found himself entranced by Vol 1 of Bavouzet’s Mozart concertos with the Manchester Camerata, concluding: ‘this is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
Four works by two composers combine to create this hour-long concert of the sort that was common in Salzburg during Mozart’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2017
Lyrita follows up its useful pairing (4/16) of Peter Racine Fricker’s oratorio The Vision of Judgement (1958) and Fifth Symphony...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017
It is humbling that a self-taught European composer in his sixties can have written such a stack of well-crafted, emotionally...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2017
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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