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...
Every now and then a new work comes along that simply takes one’s breath away. The Violin Concerto Wall of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
What weird and wonderful challenges lie in the 100 minutes of Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles. Lucky the London Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2015
Although acknowledged as a fine composer with a relatively good discography, in some respects the late, great John McCabe –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
The acoustic of Kloster Eberbach is no more obtrusive a presence here than it was in the Resurrection Symphony reviewed...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2015
There are masses of CDs covering all four Ives symphonies and plenty of LPs before that. For the Second Symphony...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 05/2015
The Australian composer, arranger and pianist Sally Greenaway works in a multiplicity of styles and genres, from orchestral film and...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015
This is BIS’s third disc devoted to the music of the Finn Sebastian Fagerlund (b1972). David Fanning was not wholly...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2015
There’s something very ‘pre-Shostakovich’ about the austere chord that opens the 20-year-old Enescu’s Symphonie concertante, but thereafter this lyrical outpouring...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015
The nature of Elgar’s musical language, with its elastic tempi and, as Parry once described, expressive ‘spasms’, has often proved...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 05/2015
Asked to nominate a single word that sums up Mariss Jansons’s approach to these particular Bruckner symphonies, it would be...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2015
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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