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...
If you haven’t come across Colombian-born, Viennese trained Andrés Orozco-Estrada you soon will. Appointed Principal Guest Conductor to the London...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016
BIS has been here before, offering the same pair of Rudolf Barshai Shostakovich string quartet arrangements with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016
These live recordings, finely played and boasting an impressive Concertgebouw-like bloom, were in fact made in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016
This is an auspicious first instalment of an apparent projected complete Prokofiev piano concerto cycle. The fresh, robust sound of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016
By chance, while reviewing Pablo Heras-Casado’s new Mendelssohn disc, I happened to catch a broadcast of him conducting the San...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
We haven’t heard much of Neeme Järvi’s Martinů since his distinguished Bamberg symphony cycle for BIS, completed in 1988, though...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016
‘His Highness lived only a little more than 18 years,’ wrote Georg Philipp Telemann in the preface to Prince Johann...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016
Marie Jaëll, Liszt claimed, had ‘the brains of a philosopher and the hands of an artist’. The subject of the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016
Harry Christophers and his ‘other’ ensemble, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, return to the formula with which they...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2016
There are so very many recordings of Haydn’s two cello concertos, both recent and older, that any cellist who dares...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016
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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