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...
There are now two versions of Vaughan Williams’s big-boned Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1896-1904) to choose from. Never published...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 08/2024
Dima Slobodeniouk has his Galician orchestra at the tip of his baton in the crisp sforzandos that punctuate the first...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
Hard on the heels of the release of Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s fifth instalment (devoted to Steve...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Ferdinand Ries is better known now for his association with Beethoven. His own music is not an unknown quantity, though,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Mexican composer Gabriela Ortíz (b1964) carries on where Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and other mid-20th-century modernists left off – creating...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
Michael Collins and the Philharmonia here kick off their projected Mozart symphony cycle in splendid style: three joyful, extrovert works...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2024
Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ series has done sterling work in promoting young musicians and giving them valuable studio...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Good things come to those who wait, they say, and at last – three decades on from its inauguration –...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Positives first. This is a fine-sounding Mahler Third – up there with Manfred Honeck’s Pittsburgh account in the sonic stakes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2024
Lise Illean was born in Australia but is now based in the UK. Her compositions draw on landscapes that are...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
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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