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 in Naxos’s new series of less familiar gems from the pen of Jean Sibelius. Top...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015
Anna Vinnitskaya not only plays the Concerto for piano, trumpet and strings with consummate agility and clarity, she also directs...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2015
Schumann symphony cycles have been arriving thick and fast recently, from Nézet-Séguin, Ticciati and Rattle. And not so many years...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015
Melnikov, Faust and Queyras continue their series of Schumann’s concertos and piano trios with the Piano Concerto and the second...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2015
If this 2013 studio recording of Pelleas und Melisande lacks the clarity and conviction of the same team’s magnificent Gurrelieder...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2015
There is an appealing family feel to this disc. Rather than parachuting in any headline-catching international soloists, the Kansas City...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2015
This third release in Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle will not disappoint those following its progress. Even if competition could...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2015
When reviewing Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s coupling of Mendelssohn’s First and Third Symphonies (8/14), I concluded by lamenting a certain listlessness in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015
The prospect of a 36-minute first movement for the Ninth (Klemperer’s is 28'18") did not bode well on this final...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015
Commissioned by the 1988 Salzburg Festival and first performed by dedicatee Krystian Zimerman, Lutosawski’s Piano Concerto serves up a wealth...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2015
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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