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...
Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic have already set down a cycle of the Nielsen symphonies together with recent...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2016
Completed in June 1914, the Sinfonia drammatica is essentially an expression of Respighi’s anxieties about the impending First World War....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2016
With his high collars and long flowing hair, the Robert Radecke who gazes out from the back of the booklet...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
This is the third time Mariss Jansons has committed Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony to commercial disc, following earlier versions with the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2016
The most interesting music on this disc comes first. Selim Palmgren’s Second Piano Concerto (b1913) starts with a mysterious, almost...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2016
For the third volume in Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series Howard Shelley has swapped the Ulster Orchestra for that of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2016
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra has something of a reputation for working harmoniously with guest soloist-directors, not least among them Leif...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2016
Is it inevitable that Henze’s most orthodox symphony is destined to receive more recordings than any of his others? This...
Reviewed in issue 08/2016
Shai Wosner, the Israeli-born pianist now based in New York, already has several well-received solo discs to his credit, encompassing...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2016
Naxos’s centenary survey of Granados’s orchestral music continues with a second disc from the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Pablo González,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2016
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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