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...
Andrew Arthur’s first volume of Bach harpsichord concertos with The Hanover Band got a mixed review from Mark Seow (9/22),...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 2008, during which time they have released many discs...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2023
Returning on the subway from a 2015 concert in Brooklyn by Roomful of Teeth, Vivien Schweitzer of The New York...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023
The fifth volume of Cecile Licad’s ‘Anthology of American Piano Music’ offers an intriguingly curated programme focusing upon dance. Amy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2023
John Dillinger, the American gangster once proclaimed ‘Public Enemy No 1’, is as infamous as Bonnie and Clyde. His brief,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2023
'Remembrance’s flawed roughness’ is how Christopher Cerrone describes the narrative ambiguity threaded through this hour-long chamber opera. Based on Ryūnosuke...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2023
John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction (1996) has had at least half a dozen recordings since the first, by Nicolas Hodges and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023
Each of David Post’s superbly written new three-movement quintets adds music of a richly imaginative nature to the repertoire. His...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2023
Shara Nova (b1974, known until 2016 under her married name of Worden) is a soprano and composer with her own...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2023
Since its formation as a saxophone quartet in 1988 by multi-instrumentalist Eric Sleichim, Bl!ndman’s dynamic performances and recordings have sought...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2023
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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