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...
This is an intelligently programmed album of intelligently constructed, sonically well-imagined music by one of Scotland’s most innovative composers, Stuart...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2022
The Bohemian-born musician Josef Labor (1842-1924), blind from the age of three, lived long enough to record. A surviving portion...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 05/2022
This programme was designed, we’re told in the booklet note, to explore the relationship between the colour blue and the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
A few months back I sat on the jury of a string quartet competition and listened for two days to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2022
Sample Jennifer Kloetzel’s solo phrase at the start of Beethoven’s Variations on Handel’s ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ and you’ll...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2022
My first encounter with the music of Woldemar Bargiel (1828 97) was in 1997 and Steven Isserlis’s recording of his...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2022
I think CPE Bach would have got on well with François Lazarevitch, such is the quantity of curiosity and imagination...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022
What’s the collective noun for bassoons? A grumble of bassoons, after the Grandfather in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf? A...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 05/2022
While mention of the Baroque cello repertoire might first prompt thoughts of Italy, the title of this programme from Ophélie...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2022
‘Amarcord d’un Tango’, saxophonist Marco Albonetti writes in a booklet note, ‘was created to offer the listener a brief journey...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2022
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
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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