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...
Pasi Pirinen is the Principal Trumpet for both the Helsinki Philharmonic and Avanti! Chamber orchestras, as well as a prize-winning...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2015
One definition of Allegro aperto, the direction in the first movement of the Oboe Concerto, reads ‘an allegro with broad,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 02/2015
Broadway-Lafayette is a New York City subway station in Manhattan, so someone will have to explain to me its relevance...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2015
Having recorded the piano music of his fellow countrymen Soler and Granados (4/12), Luis Fernando Pérez now turns his attention...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 02/2015
Marcus Bosch is at his best in the lyrical second subject of the Fourth Symphony’s finale, which has something of...
Reviewed in issue AW2014
For guitarist/composers such as these three, writing for guitar and orchestra is always a dialectical process. On the one hand,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 02/2015
Every culture gets the Beethoven Ninth it deserves. This is not the Ninth to pair with A Survivor from Warsaw,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 02/2015
In a note appended to this exceptional version of the Suites – performed by single players at a lower pitch,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2015
Gonzalez X Ruiz and Monica Huggett apply long-established scholarly theories that Bach must presumably have written oboe concertos, now lost,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2015
This is a Russian choral album with a difference, offering not only the rich, diatonic panoply of Glinka’s cherubim and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill 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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