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...
With this release, Annunciation (1934 37) achieves its second commercial CD recording. Check out Michael Oliver’s July 1994 Gramophone review...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015
The imaginative, bright young resident ensemble at London’s Kings Place launch their Warner Classics contract with what we used to...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 02/2015
Four vibrant, attractive concertos – three written within the past three years – by three of Britain’s brightest and best,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
Hitchcock understood the value of music and its impact on audiences. He omitted Bernard Herrmann’s searing score for Psycho (1960)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
The release of this four-CD set of works for solo string instruments and orchestra pays tribute, as does the recently...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 02/2015
A product of the Reykjavík Music School, Eastman School of Music, Royal College of Music and Juilliard School, Guðný Gumundsdóttir...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015
Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (1897 98) is known for its autobiography and the composer provided with it a titled narrative...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 02/2015
Coupling Tchaikovsky’s Serenade with Shostakovich’s Second Quartet seems eccentric even for an ensemble that, so the record blurb tells us,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 02/2015
Salvatore Sciarrino’s early-period orchestral piece Berceuse (1967 69) provides a disappointingly still centre to the turning, transformative sound universe of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 02/2015
I’ve already sung the praises of flautist-turned-conductor Jaime Martín in his Tritó coupling devoted to Catalan composers Juli Garreta and...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2015
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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