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...
Henry Walford Davies is a name known to us now for Solemn Melody and small-scale church pieces such as ‘God...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022
This album is the result of the MA Competition Bruges, at which part of the first prize was the opportunity...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2022
It is good nowadays that recordings of Britten are steadily beginning to acknowledge the debt the composer owed to his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2022
‘Revaluation’ and ‘revelation’ are the words that most immediately come to mind in response to this remarkable release in Unitel’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 10/2022
It is often asserted that today’s violin stars lack the personality of their famous forebears. Then again the projection of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2022
There’s something intensely evocative about the solo trumpet – a plaintive, plangent, melancholic sound that speaks just as eloquently of...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2022
Håkan Hardenberger and Fabien Gabel, himself a former trumpeter, join forces here for a programme of post-war French music, familiar...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022
Hard to believe Lockenhaus is now into its fifth decade but this festival, founded in 1981 by Gidon Kremer and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2022
Another generous programme of Sullivan from John Andrews on Dutton, and at first glance it appears as if most of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022
Shostakovich’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies clearly belong together – flipsides of the same coin, the composer wrong-footing the Soviet establishment...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson 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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