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...
Recordings are coming thick and fast from the Swedish violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and each argues emphatically that strength of tone,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2016
What an apt coupling this is. The two composers were close friends; Medtner’s Second Concerto, completed in the summer of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017
György Ligeti’s 1966 Cello Concerto is meant to grow from the brink of silence, with a sustained note that gradually...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2017
The first instalment of Andrew Davis’s Ives series (5/15), which included the First and Second Symphonies, was generally well received...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 04/2017
Harry Christophers and his Boston ensemble complete their cycle of the three ‘Times of Day’ symphonies, the three violin concertos...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04
So is Johan Halvorsen’s 1909 Violin Concerto – presumed destroyed until it was found in 2015 – a rediscovered masterpiece?...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
Given the saxophone’s importance in early minimalist scores and its central role in defining the unique sound of Glass’s ensemble...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2017
Pity François Devienne, who died in the Charenton asylum of derangement brought about (according to a sympathetic pupil) ‘by the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
Towards the end of the Scherzo, the camera catches a viola player giving a smile to a colleague. It’s a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017
Despite Ivor Bolton’s Bruckner recordings having been praised in these pages by Peter Quantrill, Richard Osborne and Edward Greenfield, the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2017
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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