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...
Sviridov’s work has slowly been making its presence felt in the West. Choral works turn up in anthologies with some...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2015
In a note accompanying this new Winterreise with Jan Van Elsacker, the fortepianist and musicologist Tom Beghin asks what yet...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2015
Thanks to Stephen Hough and Arcadi Volodos, Mompou’s piano music has had its moments of glory in the Gramophone Awards....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 03/2015
Alun Hoddinott’s prolific output hasn’t fared well on disc in recent years so it’s good to welcome these two CDs...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 03/2015
Handel’s first version of Israel in Egypt (1739) included a makeshift first part parodied from the anthem The ways of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 03/2015
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wigmore Hall Live and the label has plenty to celebrate. Its latest disc,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 03/2015
Schumann’s final songs, settings of poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, were long routinely dismissed as the products of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2015
Sigiswald Kuijken’s recent series of selected cantatas yielded many probing readings, especially in the more intimate works. These are the...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 03/2015
This remarkable anthology comes from Rui Lopes, a highly musical and virtuoso bassoonist whom the English Chamber Orchestra accompany most...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 03/2015
Wergo’s series focusing on Ensemble Musikfabrik has now reached its eighth and arguably most fascinating instalment, not least for two...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
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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