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...
‘Mozart Requiem*’, says the cover, the asterisk leading to the rubric ‘Version Paris, 1804’. Thirteen years after Mozart’s death and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
The Ukrainian composer Galina Grigorjeva (b1962) has always had a natural affinity for the voice, and in particular choral writing....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2023
Despite herself, Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) is increasingly established as a composer. She was known to describe her youthful pieces as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2023
Margaret Bonds (1913 72) studied with Florence Price at high school (she also had tuition later from Roy Harris and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Bach drafted an annotated genealogy of his extensive musical family in about 1735 and he had a collection of mostly...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2023
Recent releases such as song-cycles by Robert Hugill (Navona, 1/18) or the Celtic-inspired miscellany ‘Between Earth and Sea’ (Tyˆ Cerdd)...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
Anthony Romaniuk follows up his brilliant ‘Bells’ (11/20) with ‘Perpetuum’, another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
So all-embracing was Chopin’s influence on piano composition that few composers writing in the idiom (rather than that of Schumann,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2023
If anything, ‘late style’ is more about a renewed sense of freedom, of expanded possibilities, of a more capacious creativity,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 04/2023
It must have been quite a headache for BIS to come up with a title for Yevgeny Sudbin’s latest album....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 04/2023
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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