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...
Glaring musicological errors proliferate in Ricercar’s booklet note and blurb. The truth is that nobody knows when or why Handel...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW22
‘A divine surprise’, Hervé Niquet calls this music, going on to imply that he hasn’t encountered Handel’s Coronation Anthems before....
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW22
Here’s a welcome follow-up to Lyrita’s own bold coupling (2/08) of those two substantial concertos for piano and cello (premiered...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW22
Every Brahms lieder recital is bound to be a new journey into the half-lights of the composer’s psyche. But for...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW22
The furtive, conspiratorial opening of the Haydn overture promises buffo merriment. Jollity, though, is short-lived. From Haydn’s tragic Scena di...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW22
The early post-pandemic concerts enjoyed some of the best and best-behaved audiences. Apart from the collective thirst for live music,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW22
What better way to mark the half-century celebration of Blackburn Cathedral’s groundbreaking and iconic JW Walker instrument of 1969 than...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: AW22
This Champs Hill recital disc is a piece of the prize package for the Windsor Festival International String Competition, which...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW22
Once upon a time in a distant land many years ago, a small boy was given a piano by his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW22
It was once common for pianists to couple Schumann’s Carnaval and C major Fantasie on disc – Abbey Simon, Robert...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW22
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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