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...
There wasn’t exactly a dearth of recordings being made of Britten’s Cello Suites before the death of their dedicatee Mstislav...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2013
This follow-up to Feng’s 2010 collection ‘Solo’ (11/10) has more of a musical thesis running through it than its predecessor’s...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: AW2013
Of the various complete Bach organ recorded sets, few consistently transport this great music out of the loft and into...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW2013
Antony Gray’s three-disc collection of arrangements (62 different movements in all) is an imaginatively sourced compendium. It seems to have...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2013
Hilary Hahn’s Tchaikovsky is no warhorse. Her tone remains unforced even in the most strenuous passages, and in the finale,...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 04/2011
How strange that it has taken the 50 years that have elapsed since Sir Thomas Beecham’s death for this fascinating...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2011
Jukka Tiensuu (b1948) never gives clues to the meanings of his works’ titles so it is more rewarding to focus...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2011
By extending the range of what’s possible on an instrument, one increases freedom while decreasing complacency, thus making possible a...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2011
The Venetian theorbist Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651) worked in Rome from 1605, composing and performing for popes, cardinals and princes....
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2011
Kairos’s Lachenmann discography already extends into double figures. This double-CD presents the expanded version of his choral piece Les Consolations,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2011
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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