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 new issue enters a crowded field but on paper has some unusual characteristics to distinguish it. First is the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2015
Here is that odious Child again, recorded in 2013, a few months before the recently issued live performance conducted by...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2015
Dorothea Röschmann has sung all the Mozart roles represented here at either the Vienna Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, or both....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2015
When the young French cellist Edgar Moreau released his debut album last year (6/14) it was with a relatively soft...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2015
Finding a marketing angle on a new Vivaldi concerto release is sometimes an exercise in harmless deception, so it is...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2015
The close proximity of Simon Rattle’s latest survey of the symphonies with the majestic Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra only serves to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2015
We have reached the sixth and final instalment in this fascinating series from Turku. It’s given over to just one...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2015
If some composers generate floods of discs when one of their anniversaries comes around, the centenary of Scriabin’s death has...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12q
Two updated versions of Peter and the Wolf in the same month? Must be Christmas. The first is a knock-out...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2015
No fewer than three recent Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra chiefs have been recording Prokofiev symphonies, in Bergen and São Paulo as...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2015
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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