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...
Drawing from numerous genres but free from many of their constrictions, the alt-classical-world-music-jazz pieces coming out of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2024
Shortly before his death, Lawrence K Moss (1927-2022) had the good fortune to learn that a number of his works...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2024
This entertaining album was the offspring of a concert given at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the centenary of Lukas Foss...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Listening to these polished performances, I marvel that the Kansas City Symphony was founded as recently as 1981. Kudos, then,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
Of all the indisputably great composers, Schumann has had to contend with more brickbats than most. Now we’ve finally scotched...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2011
Samuel Hasselhorn’s first orchestral release, this album follows his inaugural instalment of the ambitious ‘Schubert 200 Project’ (Harmonia Mundi, 11/23)....
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 07/2024
A hearty welcome to this exceptionally stimulating programme, devised – and essayed with penetrating insight – by Robin Tritschler. With...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
Ah, Choral Evensong, that peculiarly English institution, which offers a welcome period of solace to so many when, to quote...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2024
Diva summit meetings can crackle with competitive tension, but don’t lower-stakes duet albums – made among friends – merit more...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
Think of the petty humiliations Dvořák had to endure from a German-speaking musical establishment. Add the condescension of a posterity...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024
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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