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...
All but one of the works on this new album date from the past 10 years, not that you would...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
Tchaikovsky was inspired to write his Violin Concerto after playing through Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole with Yosif Kotek in March...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2023
Gil Rose has a special knack for finding music that has somehow slipped through the cracks. Here, he gives us...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023
Edward Gardner approaches the end of his Schubert cycle – only the Ninth to go – with a coupling of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023
Given the limited representation of Schreker’s music in DG’s catalogue, the release of this excellent double album of works by...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2023
Pancrace Royer (1703 55) may be long recognised as one of the French Baroque’s most significant harpsichord composers but his...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2023
This generously filled album brings together a selection of concert works and film music by Nino Rota. Such is the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2023
This latest release of Respighi’s orchestral works completes the series of recordings by BIS that have been conducted by John...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 06/2023
For her many fans, the young Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova is a champion of Rachmaninov, and her performance of his...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2023
One does not usually start these reviews with a critique of the booklet but I must make an exception. Written...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas 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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