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...
John Pickard’s hour long Fourth Symphony, composed in stages between 1991 and 2003, is scored for brass band. An hour-long...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
This disc contains some of Panufnik’s most intriguing music. The three concertos come from a wide chronological span, the Piano...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014
Allow me to introduce a couple of composers of whom not one in ten thousand, I guess, not even dedicated...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
In a sense the images on the front and back of the disc say it all: this is Mozart of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2014
A 27-minute bonus feature finds Riccardo Chailly discussing his interpretation of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a useful guide to both the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014
Completed in August 1918 but mysteriously left in short score, Stanford’s Second Violin Concerto lasts just under half an hour...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
Well over halfway through his cycle by now, Thomas Fey alights on two ‘London’ Symphonies, one from each of Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2014
Alexander Tharaud dives vigorously into the piano’s unexpected entrance just a few bars into the orchestral ritornello of Mozart’s Jeunehomme...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014
Chronologically, these four concertos come between the first set of concertos published in 1738 as Op 4 (Nos 1 6)...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
Born in 1931, Joan Guinjoan is one of Catalonia’s most distinguished composers, having been part of the establishment of what...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2014
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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