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...
Fugue State Films continues to enrich the niche organ DVD market with its splendid crowd-funded productions. Hot on the heels...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 06/2021
In an interesting appendage to the main booklet note (an excellent essay on the Caprices by Jeremy Nicholas that has...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2021
Great music can take many different interpretations. But there are times when a distinguished artist seems to have wandered into...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2021
Howard Shelley has been on a winning streak with his Mendelssohn odyssey and the penultimate volume lives up to previous...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2021
When it comes to the organ music of César Franck, we are spoilt for choice; there is not so much...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2021
There are myriad good things to say about this album. Take the crystalline execution of the Fugue in D, BWV850:...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2021
The best piece of advice I ever got when starting out as a broadcaster was from the great Michael Oliver,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2021
These three discs recorded by The Brahms Trio are sure to make some listeners ask: ‘What is Russian in this...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 06/2021
The Baroque era was especially good at publishing works under titles that gave no hint of the treasures enclosed within...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2021
In his fascinating booklet note essay, David Gordon-Shute, Onyx Brass’s tuba player, explains how an envelope containing a small collection...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2021
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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