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...
Mahler’s impact on those that followed him was greater than he would ever know. For Shostakovich it was the irony,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2023
The first release by Curtis Studio, a new label founded by the Curtis Institute of Music, brings a warm and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2023
I last encountered Simon Callaghan in Vol 76 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series playing Rheinberger and Scholz (8/18). This...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023
This third instalment in Naxos’s survey of Florence Price’s orchestral music presents four major works. The two concert overtures might...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2023
At last the spotlight of revisionism is swinging its beam towards Else Marie Pade (1924-2016). The sidelined Danish composer gets...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2023
These are quite marvellous – and in the case of the Fourth Symphony, incendiary – performances. There’s something about the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2023
Evidently a pianist keen to extend the repertoire through exploring its byways and extending its compass, Peter Friis Johansson demonstrates...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2023
Here is another recording that will mean more to attendees of the associated live event than those seeking a general...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 02/2023
Haydn’s cello concertos may top and tail the running order but this programme hinges around the figure of Nicola Porpora...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023
Eight years, 13 volumes and 41 symphonies into his ambitious ‘Haydn 2032’ project, Giovanni Antonini selects three works in which...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2023
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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