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...
Oleg Marshev is to Danacord what Michael Ponti was to Vox, having given us such scintillating concerto obscurities as Winding’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014
The Australian World Orchestra is effectively a gathering of Aussie clans – a grand reunion of native musicians based both...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW2014
At the start of his otherwise commendable booklet essay, Christoph Schlüren lists all the dominant Swedish composers of Lars-Erik Larsson’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW2014
New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) studied with Douglas Lilburn and taught at the Victoria University in Wellington. Since 2004 he...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014
What immediately strikes you about this recording is not the execution of the familiar opening pages of the Tchaikovsky but...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2014
As Christopher Austin points out, an assessment of Ben Foskett’s composing this past decade needs to take into account his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2014
Zdeněk Fibich’s tone-poems are roughly contemporaneous with Smetana’s and precede D Dvořák's Erben-inspired late masterpieces by a number of years....
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
This recording should send Baroque music lovers clamouring for more. Although a violinist, Johann Friedrich Fasch wrote ingeniously for wind...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: AW2014
Here’s a welcome companion issue to Sakari Oramo’s account of Elgar’s Second Symphony (9/13). If the Finn’s view of its...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2014
The opening bars of the symphony signal something quite out of the ordinary, the perfect balance of horns and violas,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW2014
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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