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...
‘Tzimon Barto has had such a bad press, in this country at least, one is drawn instinctively to his side.’...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2015
Zuill Bailey opens this triptych with a superb account of Bloch’s masterly Schelomo, concentrated and powerful, the soloist rhapsodising in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015
These two works are impressively recorded. The sound is particularly full and spacious; even listening on ordinary stereo equipment, Berlioz’s...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2015
On the evidence of this set, the husband-and-wife team of Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano enjoy a keen musical rapport....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2015
Formed in 1981, Capella Savaria has the distinction not only of being the first period orchestra in Hungary, but perhaps...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2015
No tempo direction for the first movements of Nos 1 3 and 6. By tradition it could be a fast...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 04/2015
Rebecca Saunders’s Fletch (2012) is the work of a composer who knows very well, probably too well, how to turn...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
In their music-making, ‘Sirena pass seamlessly between different eras and musical styles,’ suggests Matti Eden’s note with this CD. The...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 04/2015
The Ensemble Contraste here offer an illuminating sequence of pieces for piano quartet, with two of Purcell’s magnificent Fantazias arranged...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 04/2015
At first glance, this might seem a bizarre programme, until one appreciates the make-up of The Backman Trio, comprising Finnish...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2015
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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