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...
Jonathan Cohen and Les Violons du Roy brook no compromises at the dramatic start of the great D minor Concerto,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023
Until his move to Vienna at the start of the 1780s, Mozart was an avowed admirer of the pianos of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2023
The warm period sonorities of the Kölner Akademie – pure-toned strings and downy flutes – help to place Emilie Mayer...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2023
Following on from the symphonies (2/19, 4/20), the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra continues its Lutosławski survey with three characteristic pieces...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2023
Where Mozart’s symphonic scores tend to be treated as sacrosanct, Haydn’s are often a cue for added ‘effects’, ear-tickling or...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023
A collision of two aesthetic universes here: two minor-key Haydn symphonies, No 49 unremittingly sombre, No 80 trading in bizarre...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2023
Who would not want to spend a day with Haydn and his friends in the Esterházy court orchestra, grateful no...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2023
Few recordings have stronger ties to New York City than this one. The composer, Justin Dello Joio, was born and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2023
First, cards-on-table time. For me Brahms’s B flat Concerto (No 2) is by far the genre’s greatest of the Romantic...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2023
I found the first volume of Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington DC’s Beethoven symphony cycle (11/22)...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2023
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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