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...
Hans Rott was 19 when he composed the first movement of his Symphony for a competition at the Vienna Conservatory...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022
These overlapping collections reflect persuasive if divergent ideas about programme-building and interpretation. Common to both is Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, written for...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2022
Unless I’m mistaken, aside from their 2018 account of Verdi’s Macbeth in its original 1847 version, Fabio Biondi and Europa...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022
In a matter of only weeks before this recording arrived for review I’d been privileged to witness two great (and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022
The music of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-79, not 1891-1953 as the booklet’s biography has it) really should be far better known...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
Haydn’s three ‘Times of Day’ Symphonies must be among the most-recorded of all the works of his very early period....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2022
Although as a pianist she was virtuoso enough to play concertos by Brahms and Glazunov, the oboe was Ruth Gipps’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022
This is the 25th-anniversary reissue of Rachel Barton Pine’s groundbreaking album ‘Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022
I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022
Remembering their recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (A/14) and violin concertos (4/16), what else are we to expect from John...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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