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...
Enescu’s three numbered symphonies were composed between 1905 and 1918 and, although demonstrating an eclectic range of influences, reflect the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024
Currently enjoying his 24th and final season as music director of the Hallé, Mark Elder has already given us painstakingly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
The fifth release in Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s groundbreaking ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ focuses on Steve Elcock...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024
It used to irk me when young pianists chose to include Beethoven’s last piano sonata in their debut recordings. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024
Lahav Shani’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was warmly welcomed by Richard Osborne in these pages last year (8/23), and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024
If one were asked to sum up young British cellist Laura van der Heijden’s career to date, then beyond its...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
Few concertos establish a more vivid sense of anticipation than Beethoven does at the start of his Triple Concerto, a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024
After the heroic first movement and the tragic second, writes Iván Fischer in a brief foreword to this new Budapest...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024
A ‘very singular double concerto’ is how Richard Bratby described CPE Bach’s work for two keyboards in an interview in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2024
It’s over 30 years since Cage’s death in 1992, yet opinions remain divided about the American composer’s music and his...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2024
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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