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...
Johann Abraham Schmierer (literally ‘scribbler’) was discharged from Augsburg cathedral choir in 1680, but it was in the same city...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2015
Writing intriguingly in this disc’s accompanying note, Jed Distler tells us of a phantom presence behind Rachmaninov’s performance of his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Attention is most surely paid at the start of Nielsen’s Violin Concerto: that startling Bach-like Praeludium over pedal point is...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2015
Le partage des eaux (1995-96) is one of Tristan Murail’s best works, so although this first-rate BBC recording was made...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2015
Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) was perhaps the most important opera composer in France in the period before Berlioz, as well as...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2015
No previous instalment in Paavo Järvi’s Mahler cycle prepared me for the raw passion of this Ninth. The first movement’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2015
Regular readers will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninths. My list is headed by Abbado and Bernstein. Yours...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2015
Peru may not be noted for a plethora of composers working in the Western classical tradition but Jimmy López (b1978)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015
Not to be confused with his conductor grandson Vladimir Mikhailovich, or with his son Michail Vladimirovich who conducts on the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2015
Public taste is a fickle thing. The higher your standing, the greater your fall – pianistic superstars of today take...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
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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