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...
As Habakuk Traber observes in his perceptive notes, the late 19th and early 20th centuries were something of a golden...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2022
This programme is identical to Emmanuelle Bertrand and Pascal Amoyel’s, with seven song arrangements sandwiched between the two cello sonatas....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022
Phrased in two (like Schiff) instead of four (Gould), the G minor Fugue from Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022
If you wish to test the mettle of a recording of Bach’s Overtures – known to many as his Orchestral...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022
We have had Shostakovich and Tüür (3/18, 6/20) from Paavo Järvi’s exceptional and distinctive orchestra combining all-star continental European principals...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2022
This is BIS’s third album of music by Shanghai-born Xiaogang Ye, this time featuring music originally composed for film. Sichuan...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2022
Johann Wilhelm Wilms was born near Cologne in 1772. That’s just two years after Beethoven, and only 50 or so...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022
No one ever needs to convince me of Kurt Weill’s importance in the great scheme of music. Not just in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022
The early evolution of Stravinsky from fledgling to Firebird feels like the most natural thing in the world as one...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022
Here’s an exercise in comparisons, and not necessarily the ones you might expect. Herbert Blomstedt makes his DG debut at...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022
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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