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...
I am not familiar with previous recordings from the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their conductor David Bernard, but there...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021
It’s heartening that this, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin’s second recording of the Brandenburg Concertos, took place in the...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2021
This has been a fascinating experience. I chose to come to this music – exhumed as it is from nearly...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2021
The Romanian pianist and composer Victor Nicoara was born and educated in Bucharest, later studied at the Royal College of...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW21
Do you remember your first impression of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra? If it was anything like mine, it will have...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW21
This new album by the Tucson-based Borderlands Ensemble represents the efforts of horn player Johanna Lundy, five gifted string players,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW21
The neurological condition of synaesthesia profoundly informs Scott Wollschleger’s piano-writing. Yet it’s not necessary to know that in order to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW21
Cedille’s newest Leo Sowerby collection features first recordings of the two symphonic jazz works Paul Whiteman commissioned in the mid-1920s...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: AW21
I was quite taken with Brian Field’s concise, rhythmic First String Quartet two years ago (11/19; he completed an even...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW21
Having proved himself an engaging Mozartian with his previous release (a collection of arias and overtures with Elizabeth Watts and...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: AW21
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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