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...
Here is the second release in James Gaffigan’s projected Prokofiev symphony cycle, a series that suddenly finds itself one among...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
Like James Ehnes before him, Vadim Gluzman has now set down all Prokofiev’s major works for solo violin, albeit spread...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
Jón Nordal (b1926) was an acolyte of Paul Hindemith, whose visit to Darmstadt in 1957 silenced him for nearly a...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16
Perhaps we shouldn’t enquire too deeply into the reasons for the sudden blossoming of Schumann’s Violin Concerto as a repertoire...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW16
Lars Vogt here swaps the keyboard for the podium in a disc that showcases his erstwhile pupil Danae Dörken, still...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
Seeking to identify the author of Traumgesicht (‘Dream Visage’), the innocent ear might guess early Delius or someone else under...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW16
This isn’t at all the Mahler Ninth one might have expected from Barenboim – although maybe, just maybe, his profound...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW16
Ortwin Stürmer is the pianist for whom Horațiu Rădulescu wrote much of his piano music, works of which Stürmer made...
Reviewed in issue AW16
The Concerto for Strings (1965) and Glosses on Themes by Pablo Casals (heard here in its original string orchestra version...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
With this disc, Benjamin Frith finally completes his cycle of Field’s piano concertos. The Seventh Concerto was made back in...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
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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