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...
John-Henry Crawford took first prize in the 2019 Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition, and this recording (made very soon thereafter)...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2021
Mark Barden’s music pursues a forensic exploration of the instrumental body. In live performance, this can give a theatrical air...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2021
The title and cover of this album are misleading, for Robert Smith and Francesco Corti have hidden loveliness between the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2021
Like so many musicians trapped in the midst of the Covid pandemic, the young South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim has...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2021
We take familiar works such as the Brandenburg Concertos for granted, argues Thomas Dausgaard in his booklet note. Other composers...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2021
The impetus for this recording appears to be that both Der Freischütz and the F minor Konzertstück were posthumously premiered...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2021
Vivaldi was such an original and yet so consistent with his language – its punchy rhythms, dynamic contrasts, surprise shifts...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2021
Fenella Humphreys wears her virtuosity lightly. She’s one of those very ‘contained’ players whose musicality looks you straight in the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021
Shostakovich’s first and last symphonies make for intriguing bedfellows: the beginning and end of a tortuous journey, heavy with irony...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2021
This is Mark Bebbington’s second Poulenc disc for Resonus and a more than worthy companion to its predecessor, much admired...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2021
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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