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...
It will come as little surprise that Beethoven’s Eroica, the symphony he originally dedicated to Napoleon, looms large in Carl...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017
This is such an attractive programme that it’s hard to credit that three of the works here are receiving their...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2017
Despite Detlev Glanert’s self-professed feeling for the melancholia and severity of north German music (he was born in Hamburg), his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2017
Despite Detlev Glanert’s self-professed feeling for the melancholia and severity of north German music (he was born in Hamburg), his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2017
A disc of two halves, for sure: a somewhat sober Jeremiah and a scintillating Age of Anxiety. Perhaps there is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2017
The Ninth at New Year is a Leipzig tradition instituted in 1918 by its music director, Artur Nikisch. The event...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
Khatia Buniatishvili, with her trademark slash of red lipstick and tumbling, thick black hair, is among the most charismatic of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2017
Either Jascha Horenstein (in 1954) or August Wenzinger (1950-53) are commonly cited as leading the first Brandenburg Concertos to be...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2017
William Alwyn composed these film scores between 1941 and 1959, when a visit to the cinema was a twice-weekly event...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2017
Eyvind Alnæs’s Piano Concerto (1915) has charm aplenty. The Norwegian composer’s score is tuneful and opulently orchestrated, and the virtuoso...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2017
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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