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...
This is the second volume of Hyperion’s Classical Piano Concerto series, one that was launched with Howard Shelley leading the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2016
I doubt Hannu Lintu’s Sibelius would sound the way it does here had the conductor not been so deeply involved...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
I like the idea of a CD where top billing passes from one star soloist to another. And I like...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
The variably transliterated Dmitri Kitaenko, who recorded The Bells for Chandos in the 1990s (2/92), has recently completed a more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
It’s the Shostakovich effect all over again. You might feel that what we need now are good modern recordings of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue:
The Thirteenth Symphony (1976) is the largest of Pettersson’s later symphonies, second only in size to No 9, completed just...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016
To Mendelssohn Thomas Dausgaard brings the qualities that have distinguished his cycles of Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, notably a spring...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2016
The competition is formidable – that’s why it was sensible to find room for Blumine. Whether you choose to experience...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
With the notable exceptions of Immerseel/Anima Eterna, Roth/Les Siècles and Rohrer/Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the original-instrument crowd has largely avoided...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
If Larsson’s First Symphony (A/14) is something of a mash-up of different styles and influences, then its successor from 1936-37...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2016
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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