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...
You know immediately that this is going to be a memorable recording from the crisp clarity of the instrumental sound...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 08/2022
This sparkling recording brings together an a cappella feast of short choral pieces composed during the past decade by the...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 08/2022
There are few major choral works that ‘period’ directors tend to revisit in the studio as regularly as the Mass...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2022
Recordings of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960) mostly concentrate on his larger-scale works: five symphonies, several cantatas, and orchestral works, including the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
Pianophiles will probably remember Can Çakmur’s exquisite Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang along with the four Valses oubliées from just a couple of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2022
This is potentially one of the important recordings of our time. Violinist Johnny Gandelsman presents 24 new works by American...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2022
The young Norwegian pianist Oda Voltersvik has harnessed together four effectively contrasted representatives of the 20th-century Russian piano tradition. Admittedly...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2022
Is Bor Zuljan tackling yet another melancholic genius? Almost. Where the Slovenian lutenist’s debut solo recording was devoted exclusively to...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2022
Céline Frisch explores the work of Couperin’s contemporaries and successors in this amusing programme, ‘L’aimable’, constructed around the conceit of...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2022
The ‘world premiere’ description on this album’s cover is slightly deceiving. Carl Vine’s four piano sonatas do indeed appear together...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2022
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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