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...
Aside from a crooked entry here and there, Paavo Järvi’s anniversary account of the German Requiem, performed a century and...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2020
Regular readers will know that I think this to be a masterpiece – perhaps Bernstein’s most significant, certainly his most...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2020
Just what was Berio trying to achieve in the meticulous, variegated, sensitive, texture-obsessed, micro/macro-experimental masterpiece for 40 voices and 40...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2020
The programme alone whets the appetite. The Israeli soprano Chen Reiss and Richard Egarr have concocted an offbeat selection of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 06/2020
Whereas previous instalments of Navona’s mixed-composer ‘Prisma’ series have featured multiple performers, Vol 3 features just one orchestra, the Janáček...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
What an alluring release this is, and not only because the music is built around two beloved fairy tales, Snow...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2020
This sixth album from the Iranian composer Reza Vali is dedicated to love and longing as heard through a lavishly...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2020
Since Joanne Polk has long championed piano music by important pioneering women composers such as Fanny Hensel and Amy Beach,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2020
Charles Amirkhanian (b1945), composer, percussionist, record producer (not least of early discs by Antheil and Nancarrow, whose music Amirkhanian championed)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2020
North German organs of the late 17th/early 18th centuries and French organs of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, along with...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2020
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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