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...
It’s been a good few years since I last encountered a brand-new recording of Paul Dukas’s big-hearted and meatily argued...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
Composer, pianist and author: Peter Dickinson has enjoyed a long and successful career in all three fields and it is...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Listen blind and you’d never guess this was music by a Frenchman operating in the post-Boulez era, the best clues...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2015
Mark Bebbington is fast becoming the Iris Loveridge de nos jours with his championship of neglected British piano music. There...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
We have reached Vol 5 in Guild’s extensive survey devoted to the Swiss composer Fritz Brun (1878-1959). Completed in May...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
First impressions are of unclouded Brucknerian vistas, a noble, unforced unfolding with superb playing from the orchestra, well matched tempi...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2015
First off, a grateful nod to the EuroArts production team for abjuring from the bleeding chunk of music which usually...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2015
She may only have been composing in earnest for a decade but Charlotte Bray (b1982) is now at the forefront...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2015
Clemens Romijn’s booklet-essay for this new Budapest recording of Brahms’s Second Symphony talks of the work as a ‘paragon of...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2015
Born on the Lithuanian fringes of Prussia in the same year as CPE Bach, brought up in what is now...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2015
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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