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...
Despite its geographically Scottish title, the opening movement of From Ayrshire feels more akin to the pastoral Gloucestershire of Vaughan...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014
Edward Gregson has a formidable standing as a brass band composer, and his links with that world are writ large...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
Although his House of Bedlam collective was behind the notable album Talking Microtonal Blues (1/14), this is the first disc...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
With Vol 63 of Hyperion’s ‘Romantic Piano Concerto’ series we alight upon Benjamin Godard (1849 95), the French composer remembered...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014
Chopin’s two oft recorded piano concertos are here presented in the order of their composition (ie No 2 followed by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2014
Busoni’s Violin Concerto (1896 97), despite the success of the Second Sonata that shortly followed it, has never enjoyed much...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014
Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924-2012) will be a name unfamiliar to many, though this Danish composer left a substantial body of work...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014
Ned Bigham is a Scottish composer new to me, who eschews serialism and dissonant modernity, although he does not shirk...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 09/2014
This is a Beethoven Fifth with a difference. First we get it as you’d expect it, with Katsaris taking the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014
At a time when virtually everything is available on CD, many pianists search for something both different and enlightening. For...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2014
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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