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...
Kazuki Yamada’s new album forms a tacit tribute to the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande’s founder Ernest Ansermet, since the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW16
Competition could scarcely be fiercer in Petrushka. Unlike Vladimir Jurowski’s recent offering, this one opts for the 1947 version. The...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
This is the third recording of John Corigliano’s Symphony No 1, the American composer’s enraged and elegiac response to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
Richard Walthew’s A Mosaic in Ten Pieces (with Dedication) is a long name for a short work. So try this....
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW16
Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis are distinct musical personalities yet they work together extremely well in Brahms’s interpretatively perilous Double...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
This disc presents a satisfying if somewhat quirkily planned programme. Near the opening of The Miraculous Mandarin ballet Salonen takes...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW16
There is not much Bach in the Capella Savaria discography but this Brandenburg Concertos set follows on from a violin...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16
The Anglican church is responsible for generating a unique repertoire of music for upper voices – music that is celebrated...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW16
For aeons Andrew Parrott’s version (Virgin, 1/95) was the only noteworthy recording of Vivaldi’s popular Gloria (RV589) that used an...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW16
‘Virgil Thomson’s composing gift has never relied on interesting ideas, but on the uses to which dull ideas can be...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott 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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