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...
Norwegian orchestras have been here before…up to a point. Mariss Jansons set down two suites from Romeo and Juliet with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2016
Mozart’s violin concertos are never far from the centre of any violinist’s repertoire. Written while the composer was still a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2016
Hot on the heels of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s vivacious K453 (complete with his own cheeky cadenzas) comes Uchida’s latest instalment in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2016
Ennio Morricone attended the same high school as the director Sergio Leone, a handy link that stood them both in...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2016
Now approaching 60, James MacMillan is surely the most recorded of contemporary British composers and this new Onyx disc couples...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2016
Jongen’s friend Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that the Symphonie concertante might better be called a symphony for two orchestras, since...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2016
If I had heard these performances in concert I would doubtless have enjoyed them with few reservations. The 20-strong Australian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2016
This centenary tribute to the Argentine composer Alfredo Ginastera is the brainchild of harpist Yolanda Kondonassis – an act of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2016
Little of Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s orchestral music has appeared on disc, so Daniele Rustioni’s survey of four of his major...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2016
Appalachian Spring is most frequently heard in the 1945 concert suite for full orchestra, which omits around nine minutes of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2016
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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