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...
In a BBC Radio 3 podcast first aired in 2016, composer Nico Muhly stated that one of the things that...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2022
Over a dinner last month, I was discussing with a friend what the French mean by inégal. ‘It’s not a...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
This often fascinating album finds Christophe Grapperon and Accentus surveying choral music by Saint-Saëns and Hahn, much of it a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022
It was in early 2020, while hunting for repertoire for the London Choral Sinfonia, that its artistic director Michael Waldron...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022
As composer of a dozen motets, 30 French songs and seven Flemish songs, mostly printed in Antwerp or Leuven from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2022
The Australian Don Banks, who died prematurely at the age of 56, was a significant figure in the musical life...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
Despite its catchy title, this is not, I’m afraid, a recording that is going to set the world on fire....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022
Although this is essentially a Liszt album – no surprise, as Batsashvili was the first female winner of the International...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2022
The first thing that comes to mind when seeing the cover of protean guitarist Sean Shibe’s latest release is Watteau’s...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2022
Don’t be put off by this album’s subtitle, ‘Contemporary Organ Music’. Although there are some ‘tough’ patches, these five pieces...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2022
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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