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...
Both these 10th symphonies acknowledge the time honoured four movement prototype, yet they could hardly be more different from each...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: AW2015
The competition in the two concertos is fierce indeed, but not when they appear either side of the much less...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
Kalliwoda makes infrequent appearances on disc. I cannot find any mention in the Gramophone archives of these three overtures and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
Beggars can’t be choosers, and if you really must hear every Russian symphony you possibly can (yes, I’m in that...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015
Top marks to Robin Ticciati for venturing further afield than London for his first Haydn symphony recording. Top marks, too,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2015
Fučík. Like his best-known work, his very name provokes a smile. But who, on hearing his one big hit, could...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015
Like his more famous contemporary Telemann, Johann Friedrich Fasch was always alert to the latest musical trends. When the Italian...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW2015
All three composers featured on this luxuriously presented release hail from the Latvian region of Kurland (also known as Courland),...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2015
At first hearing, this disc suggested admirable directness and some very lyrical phrasing. With rhythmically taut and well-drilled orchestral support...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2015
The title Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime promises so much, especially if, like me, you adore cats and love jazz,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue:
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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