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...
Queens and empresses are the linking factor in this latest addition to Giovanni Antonini’s Haydn cycle. Some connections, though, are...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2024
Now in his early 60s, British composer Michael Zev Gordon shares with his near-contemporaries George Benjamin and Julian Anderson an...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 06/2024
Danny Elfman’s concerto for orchestra Wunderkammer was written for the National Youth Orchestra and clearly designed to stretch and stimulate...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2024
Older readers may associate the Lucerne Festival Strings with Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Rudolf Baumgartner but under Australian-born Daniel Dodds the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2024
The latest releases in Capriccio’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies feature a new edition of the Seventh Symphony by Paul...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2024
The Henselt Concerto has been recorded only three times previously, remarkable when you consider it was an almost de rigueur...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2024
For all his skill as an operatic composer and word-setter, Britten was not a natural symphonist. The two larger works...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2024
Tim Posner’s name may be new to many readers but this young British cellist’s credentials are impressive, his current hats...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2024
Between them violinist Antje Weithaas and pianist Dénes Várjon made me question the very basis of how I, as a...
Reviewed in issue 06/2024
Celebrating their 25th anniversary, the Euclid Quartet’s new recording showcases contrasting musical gems. All of them are favourite encores and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2024
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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