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...
Virtuosity is a remarkable thing and virtuosos remarkable people. Few more so, perhaps, than Felix Klieser (b1991), a cornist born...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2015
Vilified for the cut-and-paste job that he did on Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen has to some...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015
A big, bold New World, this, with a strong bass-line and a winning approach to the first movement’s second subject,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015
France and French performing traditions have lain at the heart of the discs released by Les Siècles, whether the repertoire...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 08/2015
Early releases in Simone Young’s nearly complete Bruckner cycle (only the Fifth Symphony remains outstanding) were distinguished by their use...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015
This release sees the completion of Jaap van Zweden’s cycle of the numbered Bruckner symphonies, a project nine years in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2015
Readers coming to this disc through Braunfels’s delightful opera Die Vögel will recognise that the composer would be temperamentally suited...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2015
Erik Schumann gives a most likeable performance of the Violin Concerto. As an experienced chamber musician, he has a clear...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 08/2015
It takes a mere four seconds to fathom the gist of Stefan Blunier’s Beethoven Eighth. A forceful opening, followed by...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2015
I’m not sure who’s the hero of the hour in this recording – the pianist, the orchestra or the timpanist....
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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