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...
In his early twenties, Francisco Mignone (1897-1986) left his native Brazil to study in Milan. He spent nearly a decade...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c1575-1628) was one of the greatest exponents of and composers for the lyra viol, a fretted...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023
The recording was made in the Salon de Musique, Hôtel de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris. This has an acoustic that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023
Scharwenka’s ingenious four-hand versions of the Beethoven symphonies are not easy to carry off. They may have been intended for...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023
Nigel North’s four-disc series for Linn of ‘Bach on the Lute’ back in the 1990s was rightly admired: ‘performances that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023
Benjamin Alard has arrived at the eighth volume of a projected 18 of all Bach’s keyboard works. As he explains...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2023
'The Stradgrass Sessions’ – one of the more evocative album titles of late, conjuring late-into-the-night laughter, whiskey and musicians just...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023
'An orchestra of three’ is how Trio Khaldei describe themselves, and this latest disc could almost serve as a sonic...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023
Following a number of releases (including the 2018 cross-genre anthology ‘Hidden Gems’ and Hans Abrahamsen’s Walden – Winter & Winter,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2023
Seicento Stravagante are a cornetto and keyboard duo, formed in 2018 and here making their recording debut in core repertoire...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023
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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