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...
Tugan Sokhiev has impressed me in the past – his Tchaikovsky Fourth with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2017
Trpčeski and Petrenko are a tried-and-tested team, and their Prokofiev recordings are every bit as polished and satisfying as I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017
This is only the second CD ever devoted to Cipriani Potter, though he was a significant and distinguished figure during...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2017
Eyebrows were raised in 2014 when Michael Nyman declared his aim during the next few years to produce not just...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017
The Potsdamers’ disc of Mendelssohn’s Symphonies Nos 1 and 4 (10/16) left Peter Quantrill unexcited. My own reactions to its...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017
Robert von Bahr’s label must be one of the few to have ducked the release of a Mahler cycle (at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017
It is only 10 years since Bernard Haitink launched the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s in-house label with a not dissimilar account...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017
Mieczysaw Karowicz’s Violin Concerto of 1902 stands at the threshold of the half a dozen Impressionist-Romantic tone poems by which...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017
The sinfonia concertante was all the rage in the late 18th century, above all in Paris and Mannheim, whose crack...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2017
Rumours have abounded online that this could be the last disc in Thomas Fey’s Haydn symphony cycle. There are two...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2017
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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