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 title of this series of solo works has nothing to do with South America in the sense that one...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023
Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023
The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
‘The Wild Sound of the 20s’ is the subtitle that Bavarian Radio has given a programming strand celebrating the year...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 03/2023
This album provides an excellent opportunity to hear three recent works by the Israeli-French-British composer Nimrod Borenstein, all of which...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2023
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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