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...
Trevor Pinnock knows a thing or two about Mozart and imparts to his youthful charges from the Royal Academy of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2016
Right from the off in Dvořák’s late G major Quartet you can tell that the Wihan Quartet are taking an...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2016
This new Cav and Pag is doubly treasurable. Not only – as the label’s blurb loudly but rightly proclaims –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2016
Handel’s roles composed for the Parmesan soprano Francesca Cuzzoni (1696-1778) have already been the subject of recital albums by artists...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2016
Tchaikovsky adored the city of Florence, returning there throughout his lifetime, paying tribute in his sextet Souvenir de Florence. He...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2016
This is, first and foremost, a thoughtful disc of great charm. Under violinist-conductor Henry Raudales, the Munich Radio Orchestra approach...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2016
Ingrid Fliter departs from her beloved Chopin for her latest disc on Linn. As on her Chopin concertos, she is...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2016
Although David Gutman may have regretted the absence of the Philadelphia Orchestra in Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s recent recording of Mahler’s Tenth...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2016
Composers born in 1900, such as Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill and Ernst Krenek, were in the front line of those...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 05/2016
Casals is generally credited with making the great leap forward in cello-playing, but if you listen to Victor Herbert’s 1912...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2016
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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