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...
There could hardly be a more fitting celebration of the Byrd anniversary than a complete recording of My Ladye Nevells...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
Competition in recordings of Bach’s solo violin music is strong and plentiful, and one might be forgiven for thinking Pablo...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
For Albert Schweitzer the Orgelbüchlein was ‘The Bible of Bach’. For Russell Stinson it is ‘simultaneously a compositional treatise, a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2023
Keith Jarrett needs no introduction as an interpreter of JS Bach, but the affective world of Carl Philipp Emanuel is...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
As album titles go, ‘Music for a New Century’ offers a varied if somewhat uneven snapshot of new music composed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2023
The historically valuable DG ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ release arrives swathed in a robe of academic authority. ‘Mozart’s correspondence reveals how he...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023
I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
What a shrewd coupling: seemingly unlikely bedfellows united not just by dint of having both been written in Italy (the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2023
These belles quarts d’heure follow a tried-and-tested recipe, coming out a little differently each time. On a blind tasting you...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023
I would not have had Nézet-Séguin down as a natural Sibelian, and I would have been completely wrong. Too few...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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