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...
Born in 1977, Latvian Eriks Ešenvalds is principally known as a composer of choral music. This album commemorates a two-year...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015
Piazzolla’s music is remarkably open to arrangement, its vibrant tango nuevo rhythms and clean sonorities transferring convincingly to most instruments....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
The Stenhammars conclude the first-ever complete cycle of their namesake’s quartets on disc with characteristically energetic and well-explored readings of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 03/2015
This second Machaut recording by The Orlando Consort for Hyperion seems to me a return to their best form. Much...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 03/2015
The year has barely begun and already here’s a disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups. Young American tenor...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015
Francesc Valls (c1671-1747) was an adoptive Catalan who spent most of his career as the chapel-master of Barcelona Cathedral. Today...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2015
If Liszt was not the greatest of 19th-century song-writers, he was arguably the most exploratory and eclectic. Spanning five decades...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2015
As with previous deluxe issues dedicated to Aristide Cavaillé-Coll and Charles-Marie Widor, Fugue State Films has (through another crowd-funding campaign)...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2015
This is the third volume of Martin Roscoe’s complete Dohnányi solo piano music cycle, and with a superb disc of...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2015
Completed in April 1879 and premiered the following month at one of Hans Richter’s Festival Concerts in London by a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach 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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