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...
Linus Roth follows up on his impressive coupling of Weinberg and Britten concertos with some equally deserving mid-20th-century concertante works,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 09/2015
Whatever scintillates and delights is here in super-abandance. For brilliant pianist (and later spin-master for Benjamin Netanyahu) David Bar-Illan, the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2015
Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor was the first concerto ever to be recorded (Wilhelm Backhaus, heavily abridged). That was...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2015
The background to Glass’s Tenth Symphony is unusual. It was originally performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble to accompany the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2015
The performing versions by William Carragan and Samale-Phillips-Cohrs-Mazzuca of the incomplete fourth movement of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony may be the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2015
The same label, conductor and orchestra recently produced a discreet and unmannered recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (6/15). Are those...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2015
There is no musician before the public today with a more complete knowledge of the Brahms piano concertos than Daniel...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2015
A great idea, this, coupling what are surely Bartók’s two greatest non-theatre large-scale orchestral works on a single CD, both...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2015
In 2004 David Matthews made an arrangement for string orchestra of the wonderfully tender and fragrantly poetic Piacevole centrepiece from...
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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