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 1934, Bryan Kelly was a composition pupil of Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015
Here’s an exceedingly welcome anthology from Lyrita. Set down in Cardiff’s Hoddinott Hall over three days in December 2013, it...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015
Gluck is never likely to be mistaken for one of the 18th century’s great melodists. He will be remembered, though,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2015
Last year should have seen the 50-something Luca Francesconi break through in the UK. Instead his violin concerto, Duende, failed...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2015
This admirable disc highlights a pair of French orchestral works from the 1960s which might once have seemed pallid and...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 03/2015
I first encountered Britta Byström’s music on Phono Suecia’s fascinating CD (‘Persuasion’, from her 2004 orchestral piece after Jane Austen)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2015
‘It is not my favourite amongst my symphonies. For the first time, I felt the music of Bruckner “distracting” me;...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2015
At the turn of the year the BBC broadcast a radio series on Magna Carta which took the Scherzo of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015
Turn straight to the Scherzo of Mario Venzago’s Fifth for a Ländler of considerable charm and subtle clumsiness, albeit on...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2015
I came to Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Bruckner Third with his bravura Schumann symphony cycle singing and dancing inside my head still,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark 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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