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...
Marrying Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Les noces makes for a bizarre mismatch. Teodor Currentzis and his Perm orchestra MusicAeterna are...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2016
This disc is part showcase, part demonstration of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana’s own links with Richard Strauss. Five bonus...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2016
Regional French orchestras might have as much pedigree recording Sibelius as the Finns do making wine, but there aren’t any...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2016
Philippe Herreweghe’s previous excursions on disc with Schubert’s symphonies were the Ninth in 2011 and the Sixth and Eighth in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2016
Born in 1950, Enjott Schneider taught for many years at Munich’s University of Music and Performing Arts. His sizeable output...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2016
Some of Saint-Saëns’s finest works are for the violin. One violinist in particular was the inspiration and beneficiary of these:...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
The first thing to say (because it is the first thing you will notice when you play this disc) is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2016
This latest addition to Southwest Radio’s survey of Wolfgang Rihm’s orchestral music offers the chance to compare Two Other Movements,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 02/2016
This beautifully programmed disc is in many ways let down by the work that to all intents and purposes forms...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2016
Prokofiev died on the same night as Joseph Stalin: there were no flowers left for the funeral and press coverage...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2016
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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