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...
This entry in Naxos’s survey of Claudio Santoro’s symphonies and orchestral music brings us to the 1960s and the Brazilian...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023
Respighi’s obsession with the ‘Eternal City’ is writ spectacularly large in his three symphonic evocations and maybe in some subliminal...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2023
French music has long featured prominently in John Wilson’s game plan. His previous all-Ravel miscellany won plaudits, notwithstanding a curiously...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023
Sakari Oramo may have made the first recording of Per Nørgård’s Symphony No 8 with the Vienna Philharmonic – and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2023
As we reach Vol 8 of Bavouzet’s compelling series, we focus on the last three years of Mozart’s life (though...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023
Semyon Bychkov’s Mahler series, the first from a Czech orchestra in 40 years, is tackling the symphonies in no particular...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2023
The Masonic Concert de la Loge Olympique that premiered these splendid works in 1787 comprised some 60 players, flamboyantly attired...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2023
The most significant item in this Scottish-themed collection is Helen Grime’s two-movement Elegiac Inflections for double wind quintet, commissioned by...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2023
With two audience-friendly Latin American composers of different generations plus distinguished soloists conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, how could this album...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2023
Mixed feelings about this one, I’m afraid. Entering a fearsomely competitive field, Michael Barenboim unquestionably possesses the virtuosity and stamina...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2023
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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