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...
The poème, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe, ‘is free from all the restrictions imposed by the hallowed concerto form; it can be...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2016
The first significant point to strike home about this varied programme is the excellence of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester’s playing under...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2016
Expanded for the occasion, the Mozarteum Orchestra gets off to a sluggish start in the lengthy (patient, if you’re disposed...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016
BIS remasters recordings of two symphonies that had limited circulation a decade ago and adds a new one of K338...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2016
The teenage Mendelssohn laid down a gauntlet with his First Symphony (a decade earlier, Schubert had done the same with...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2016
Andris Nelsons is a conductor with whom I feel more and more kinship. Making music is so much about making...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2016
Jean-Pierre Rampal’s transcription for flute of Aram Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto works better on disc than in the concert hall, where...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2016
Great musical instruments weren’t made to gather dust in museum cases, so when Pavel Gomziakov released his new recording of...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2016
In the booklet Christopher Gunning recalls how, in 2012, a memorable ascent of Sugar Loaf in the Black Mountains near...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2016
Steven Richman is to Gershwin as Charles Mackerras was to Janáček. For years he has tirelessly worked to free the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2016
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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