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...
One could be forgiven for thinking after the first minute or so that Tavener’s Palintropos, for piano and orchestra, was...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2021
Gianandrea Noseda continues his idiomatic-sounding LSO Shostakovich cycle with another generous pairing. Conventionally paced, the Ninth’s opening Allegro retains a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021
The large-scale ensemble project In Search of Lost Beauty … (Starkland, 4/19) alerted many listeners to the intricately alluring sonic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021
Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021
The symphonies of Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) constitute a truly remarkable body of work. They come out of the context of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2021
Both of these substantial offerings by New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) employ texts by his countryman and favourite collaborator, Vincent...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2021
About Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Diana McVeagh once commented: ‘To listen to the Violin Concerto is at times like eavesdropping on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021
‘He has a temper, a primitive force harsh and clumsy, with a smattering of blue-eyed Danish amenity.’ So wrote a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2021
In the Brahms Concerto, speaking metaphorically, the soloists’ courtship takes a little time to reach marriage status. The opening cadenzas...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021
As related in Peter Quantrill’s booklet note for this dynamic MusicAeterna Seventh, Teodor Currentzis seeks ‘an architecture that uncovers spirituality,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021
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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