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...
Few English composers have been the subject of such consistent condescension as Birmingham-born Albert W Ketèlbey. You won’t catch a...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2023
Torus (2016), sphere (2017) and Antisphere (2019) are three examples of what Emily Howard calls ‘orchestral geometries’, titles that embody...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2023
If you haven’t heard Louise Farrenc’s music, you might doubt the fervent claims made about it. Can her recently revived...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 07/2023
Kerson Leong’s splendid account of the Bruch comes hot on the heels of Randall Goosby’s no less committed reading with...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2023
Brahms’s Op 34 already exists in more than one form: most famously as the turbulent Piano Quintet but also as...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023
According to one online discography, there are 11 recordings of Martha Argerich playing Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto and 15 of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2023
In his booklet note to the five Beethoven piano concertos, recorded over the course of a week during July 2022...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2023
Presenting Bach’s music alongside that of his sons does not always make for comfortable programming, but here it’s particularly satisfying....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2023
Grażyna Bacewicz: all those harsh consonants, suggestive of jagged edges and perhaps a certain defiant wilfulness – qualities shared by...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 07/2023
This animated and engaging recording, captured with clarity, might perhaps finally please the Fourth Earl of Shaftesbury, who bemoaned the...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2023
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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