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...
Thanks to the focus on Scriabin’s music that came with the run-up to the centenary of his death last year...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2016
This is more a clinician’s view of the Schubert’s Great C major Symphony than a poet’s; less an act of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2016
Rival Ravel recordings are in abundance at the moment, with various discs of individual works and a couple of sets...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2016
‘As if God the Father had thrown down pieces of a mosaic from the floor of heaven and asked me...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016
Frank Peter Zimmermann is no stranger to Mozart’s violin concertos. He first recorded them in 1984, when he was 19...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2016
It’s already apparent from a very early stage of The Hebrides that Douglas Boyd has thought carefully about instrumental balance...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2016
No wonder Paul von Klenau got sniffy about the musical life of his native Denmark. In his adopted Germany, Klenau...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2016
Benjamin Godard’s symphonic works met with a mixed response during his lifetime and slipped from view, like so much of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2016
The Dutch composer Jan [Pieter Hendrik] van Gilse (1881 1944) is new to me, but I see that CPO with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
This is Christian Thielemann’s third recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, albeit the first on CD, the other two versions being...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2016
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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