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...
Judging a book by its cover is rightly frowned upon, but you can sure tell a lot about a string...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2016
The two vintage Austrian Radio concert broadcasts combined and upgraded here – in vision and, perhaps, sound (no details) –...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2016
Most of this concert, recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie last New Year’s Eve, is like being driven in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016
This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2016
Sometimes a work’s ubiquity blinds us to its brilliance. Familiarity breeds – albeit amiable, cosy – contempt. Rodrigo’s Concierto de...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2016
The best thing about this disc is the programme, followed closely by the recorded sound and, a short distance behind...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2016
No sooner had I greeted Lyrita’s enterprising refurbishment of Stanford Robinson’s 1956 BBC broadcast of RVW’s Falstaff opera Sir John...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016
Repertoire, orchestra, producer (Andrew Keener) and venue (Liverpool Philharmonic Hall) prompt rosy memories of Vernon Handley’s distinguished March 1992 sessions...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2016
Weinberg’s Cello Concerto is one of those products of the time of the Soviet Union’s 1948 anti-formalism campaign that went...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 06/2016
Gravesend is an unlikely location for a Russian opus 1, but the Andante tranquillo of Rimsky-Korsakov’s First Symphony was composed...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2016
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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