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...
‘Foss came to neo-classicism late,’ the booklet-notes accompanying this first survey of all four Lukas Foss symphonies tell us, to...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015
Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848 90), remembered for his bold, not to say high-handed revision of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2015
On grounds of sound alone, Anima Eterna’s new all-Czech coupling is something of a revelation. Jos van Immerseel has seen...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2015
I would imagine Ludovic Morlot and Karl-Heinz Steffens are thrilled – in a Gore Vidal ‘a little part of me...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 10/2015
This latest release from the very proactive Fryderyk Chopin Institute pairs live recordings of the two concertos. Common to both...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2015
The American Film Institute selected Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times as a cinematic milestone in its list of 100 films of...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2015
This release completes Simone Young’s Bruckner cycle, one of only a handful to include the two early symphonies in F...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2015
Ulf Wallin gives a dramatic, passionate reading of Bruch’s Second Concerto, aided by a fine, spacious recording and strong, well...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 10/2015
New recordings of Delius’s raptly songful, beautifully proportioned Violin Concerto are always welcome. Philippe Graffin’s version with David Lloyd-Jones certainly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2015
Between 1989 and 1999 Harrison Birtwistle completed three operas whose differences encapsulate the formidable extension of range characteristic of his...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall 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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