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...
BR-Klassik continues to mine its archive for concerts to release on disc and has dug back to 2013 for this...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023
Alpesh Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky album with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra came as a surprise – the choice of repertoire is...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2023
The music of Pierre(-Charles) Sancan (1916-2008) is rarely heard. Though a much-revered figure in his native France as a composer,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
Fancy starting the day with a burst of sunlight, whatever the weather? Try Mozart’s Concerto No 16 in D, K451,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023
Having created a work as perfect as the Italian Symphony, most composers would have sat happily back and thought ‘job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023
Although written half a century apart, the Third Piano Concertos by Martinů and Rautavaara have enough in common, conceptually and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023
The topic of love and death unifies the works on this disc, yielding a programme that sits better conceptually than...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023
In the best of Sebastian Fagerlund’s music there is plenty of interest (and importance) happening beneath a lucid surface. Structurally,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
Having impressed with his pairing of Dvořák and Martinů (7/21), Victor Julien-Laferrière turns to French concertos for what proves a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023
At the risk of making a weak (but nevertheless apt) joke, Czerny did rather churn it out. One has to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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