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...
Six years late, around €500m over budget and bathed in a soap-opera-worthy cauldron of lawsuits and recriminations, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie was...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2017
Maximilian Steinberg is usually remembered as Dmitry Shostakovich’s composition teacher at the Petrograd Conservatory. Shostakovich’s youthful Symphony No 1 was...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2017
Mario Venzago explains that nobody knows why Schubert left the Unfinished unfinished. In fact, in the booklet, he persuasively expounds...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017
As both the recording’s title and the subtitle of one of its works suggest, ‘Emerge’ also appropriately signals the arrival...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2017
The variably transliterated Dmitry Kitaenko continues his Indian summer with this non-standard programme of three distinctly malleable masterpieces. Only the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017
No fevered D minor Sturm und Drang or sentimental Elvira Madigan for Francesco Piemontesi’s debut Linn (and Mozart concerto) recording....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017
Martinů completed his Second Cello Concerto in January 1945, shortly before commencing work on the Fourth Symphony. In comparison with...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2017
‘Mahler said his time would come – the question now, for me, is when it will go.’ There are so...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017
'Unidiomatic’, I wrote in my notes on first hearing Ludovic Morlot’s interpretation of Three Places in New England (the opening...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2017
This is a unique coupling from a young Dutch violinist who entered the lists in 2005 with a fervent all-Elgar...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017
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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