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...
The engineered sound offers a realistic perspective from a seat at the back of the stalls in the Warsaw Philharmonic’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2015
This concert recording of the ‘Episode in the Life of an Artist’ and its lesser-known sequel has repeats in the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2015
Now 91, Sir Neville Marriner was a mere stripling of 89 when this concert recording was made, during the Poznan´...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015
Klaus Tennstedt’s reading of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture is typically measured and full-bodied, freighted with meaning. And the recording, made live...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2015
In all likelihood, Bach composed 20 or more violin concertos, mainly at Weimar and Cöthen, and yet tantalisingly we are...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2015
Elizabeth Watts has chosen to follow her lauded Bach and Mozart recitals not with Handel – the obvious lure –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2015
From the quick vibrato of the opening of the First Quartet to the viola’s pure tone that leads to the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2015
To celebrate its 21st birthday, one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Vivaldi and his contemporaries has...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2015
Of all the current doyens of modern Bach performance, Masaaki Suzuki knows no limits to his explorations. This is a...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 10/2015
These discs from two of the highest-profile tenors in the Universal stable tell very different stories. Flórez’s, entitled just ‘Italia’,...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2015
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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