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...
How best to respond to a musical fragment? The musicologist’s approach is to order the sketches as coherently as possible,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2022
Eighty-four down, and still counting. Yet again Hyperion has colonised a corner of the Romantic repertoire that others have not...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022
With this release, only four of Allan Pettersson’s symphonies remain for Christian Lindberg to record: Nos 3, 8, 10 and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022
Here is plenty to occupy those prone to speculating on the future of orchestral music. Swedish composer Jesper Nordin (not...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2022
The traditional view is that Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto, K216, represents a huge leap forward in inventiveness after the more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022
For his first recording of Mozart concertos, Éric Le Sage, in the company of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra and oboist/conductor...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2022
César Guerra-Peixe (1914-93) was, as well as a prolific composer, a great promoter of Brazilian folk music, and carried out...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
John Corigliano is not, as he would admit, a natural symphonist. With so many great symphonies already penned by others,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022
In Vladimir Jurowski’s hands, the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No 2 is a study in contrasts. He paces the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022
Having completed distinctive and imaginative recordings of Bach’s seven solo harpsichord concertos and Triple Concerto (7/20, 4/21), Francesco Corti moves...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2022
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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