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...
Cavalli’s Giasone (Venice Carnival, 1649) was originally structured into a prologue and three acts, but the short prologue and numerous...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2014
Two discs sharing the same title by two American pianists who investigate the evolution of Austro-German modern composition since the...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2014
The Paraguayan Barrios (he added Mangoré later in life) and Brazilian Villa-Lobos were close contemporaries (born in 1885 and 1887...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2014
When Christopher Robinson displayed the 1896 Hope-Jones organ of Worcester Cathedral in his 1968 recording for HMV’s ‘Great Cathedral Organ’...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014
A varied and sensitively planned programme, based on a genre that is in itself full of contrasts, slow against fast,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2014
Liszt could hardly have received a more sumptuous or ingenious tribute than that offered by Antonio Pompa-Baldi. Opening with the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2014
It’s ironic how a composer like Viktor Ullmann, who was persecuted and killed by the Nazis, wrote seven piano sonatas...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2014
Perceiving series of pieces as inseparable, to be performed from first note to last, is a relatively recent notion, and...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 11/2014
Hindemith’s organ sonatas have had surprisingly few outings on CD, so this new recording by a former pupil of Wolfgang...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 11/2014
Already well represented on disc, the music of Naji Hakim is the focus of the first in a new series...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester 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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