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...
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MATHIAS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasy
A late developer, Vaughan Williams took many years to ‘find’ his voice, and this, it could fairly be said, emerged...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 12/2011
IRELAND Piano Concerto. Legend. Rhapsody No 1
I am delighted to welcome to the catalogue a splendid new recording of what is undoubtedly the finest of all...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 12/2011
DOHNÁNYI Symphony in F. Zrinyi Overture No 2
The musical highlight here is the wartime Waltz Suite, four separate pieces, all of them abundantly tuneful, the first cast...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2011
DELIUS Concertos
Some two decades ago Tasmin Little set down memorable versions of both the Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with Sir...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2011
CURRIER Time Machines PENDERECKI Duo Concertante
Highly rated star performers can all too easily avoid the farther reaches of contemporary music. These four works written for...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 12/2011
JS BACH; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos
Valeriy Sokolov has the measure of both of these concertos and sounds entirely comfortable coping with their different technical demands....
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 12/2011
'My True Love Hath my Heart'
Sarah Connolly, with her clear, fresh mezzo, here tackles a delightful, wide-ranging sequence of English songs, with Roger Quilter the...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
Hidden Treasure
The digital dissemination of classical music now means that worthy artists need not go unrecorded – as in generations past....
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2012
Melancolia
A remarkable achievement: a fan letter to Spanish music (not excluding South America or an excursion to Villa-Lobos’s Brazil) including...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2012
WOLF Complete Songs Vol 1
It is a bold venture for the young company Stone Records to set out to record the songs of Hugo...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 01/2012
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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