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...
Three facets of Castiglioni’s homage to the past are represented on this disc from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, joined...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2015
To recap: in Gramophone’s March 2015 issue, I nominated Bruckner’s Third Symphony as his most problematic score and suggested that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 06/2015
This disc is something special. It features some of Brian’s most attractive scores – including one of my very favourites,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2015
Apart from bearing the title ‘Timeless’ and including several moody photos of David Garrett, this issue has no links to...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 06/2015
‘Even when not written out, a single bassoon is always present to double the basses. There was certainly no harpsichord...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
The Nemtanu sisters – Sarah, leader of the French National Orchestra, and Deborah, leader of the Paris Chamber Orchestra –...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2015
Unfettered personal feelings burst forth; calm mingling with turbulence and harmonic disruption leap off the page at every turn. Sakari...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 06/2015
This absorbing disc, the 65th in Hyperion’s endlessly enterprising ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series, juxtaposes the Albéniz Concerto with two first...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2015
This is something special and I urge everyone interested in the discography of Schubert’s piano music to hear it. Unsure...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2015
Tintomara is a character from 18th-century Swedish literature who, if not exactly Janus-like, has a dichotomous purpose in projecting the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2015
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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