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...
The key works of early 20th-century modernism can often seem as challenging today as one imagines they were when new....
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2022
As my recent Collection (3/22) demonstrated, we’re not exactly short of recordings of Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Most of them...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2022
Although Steve Reich’s music is often compared with the visual paintings and sculptures of like-minded artists such as Sol LeWitt,...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2022
Whether or not these three iconic 20th-century piano-orchestral masterpieces have previously appeared together on a single CD, it’s a wonderful...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022
Koechlin wrote his Seven Stars’ Symphony after belatedly seeing his first film, The Blue Angel, in 1933 at the age...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2022
Giovanni Antonini alights upon three symphonies from the mid-1770s, a period during which opera was coming to occupy more of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2022
If only Thomas de Hartmann’s music was as consistently engrossing as his biography. A Ukrainian-born aristocrat, student of Arensky and...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022
Gluck’s record as a reformer doesn’t apply only to opera. In 1761, a year before Orfeo ed Euridice, he was...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2022
Keen listeners to the Mozart/da Ponte, Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles from Nézet-Séguin and the COE will find much to enjoy...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022
An enjoyably no-nonsense kind of playing makes the opening movement of Bach’s Concerto in D minor, BWV1052, extremely striking. Soloist...
Reviewed by Mark Seow 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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