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...
Yet a further outfit intent on ringing the changes, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra juxtaposes works by figures who are not...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2014
Havana-born Orlando Jacinto García turns 60 this year, and this characteristically courageous issue from Toccata Classics allows us the opportunity...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
This may well be the most rewarding volume yet in Dutton’s hugely enterprising John Foulds series. Particularly striking here is...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2014
Discs by the Italian composer Franco Donatoni, who died in 2000, come along rarely enough that each one of them...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014
Unsuk Chin is one of the best contemporary exponents of purely instrumental music drama, and these concertos provide absorbing listening....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2014
Collectors who own the superlative set of the Brahms piano concertos which Nelson Freire made with Chailly and the Leipzig...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2014
JoAnn Falletta’s performances of these early Bartók show-stoppers really do raise the roof. Making the First Suite sound compelling is...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014
For all the ‘con moto’ hype of modern-day Italian Baroque musicians in recent years – including Giuliano Carmignola sitting on...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2014
Eighteen concertos, by the composer’s own reckoning, for each of the main instruments in the Romantic symphony orchestra, and counting....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2014
Awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music, Become Ocean is set to finally extricate John Luther Adams from the shadow...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn 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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