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...
The booklet notes remind us that this was the exact pairing of works that Carl Nielsen chose for his one...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
The sparkiest Mahler of recent years has not come from the usual suspects. Alexandre Bloch’s Orchestre National de Lille immortalised...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2023
Elizabeth Maconchy composed three works for piano and orchestra, including two concertinos (Lorelt, 1/12; Lyrita, 6/22). Dialogue (1940 41) lies...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
The secret of comedy is all about – wait for it – timing. Joseph Haydn knew this and so too...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2023
François-Xavier Roth has released recordings of both of these works before – the Strauss recorded a decade ago with the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023
You can absolutely hear why Randall Goosby has been turning heads with his open-hearted, generous ‘school of Perlman’ delivery. There’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
With this marvellous archival release – specifically that of the Ninth (1951) – of BBC broadcasts conducted by Myer Fredman,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
The curtain-raiser somewhat eclipses the main event in this instance. Why we don’t hear more of Bartók’s Four Orchestral Pieces...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2023
Lionel Meunier and Ricercar producer Jérôme Lejeune were working together on Vox Luminis’s critically acclaimed recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023
The third and final volume of Sarah Cahill’s ‘The Future is Female’ offers a chronologically wide-ranging selection of music composed...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera 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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