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...
Andrew Manze follows up his live Hanover recordings of Symphonies Nos 40 and 41 (4/19) with their two numerical predecessors,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2022
André Previn once said to me that ‘just because a composer likes to write a sound that ravishes the ear...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
Lithuania’s senior composers are little heard outside their Baltic environs – not least Algirdas Martinaitis (b1950), whose music has not...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2022
After his Fourth and Sixth Symphonies from Ondine and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, here we have the Fifth and...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
Here we have two fascinating early works by Enescu not previously recorded. Enescu was already a graduate of the Vienna...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 03/2022
Rather like Per Nørgård in Denmark, Anders Eliasson spent much of his career in Sweden pursuing and researching a compositional...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2022
Spoiler alert. If you don’t know the opening three or four minutes of Variations on a Nursery Theme, skip this...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2022
There is a good case for considering Havergal Brian’s Third Symphony (1931 32) his first symphonic masterpiece. Beautifully balanced, dramatic...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2022
This is the second volume in a series exploring, as Alexander Shelley puts it, ‘the closely intertwined personal and artistic...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2022
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s way with Beethoven’s Choral Symphony approximates a shared ritual. It is quite literally spellbinding, whether in the slowly...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2022
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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