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...
Two sestercentennial composers are celebrated here: one with an early chamber work that barely wants for recordings, the other with...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020
In an interesting note for this valuable if somewhat uneven coupling, Ben Winters makes the point that ‘both quintets were...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2020
As its name suggests, ‘An Imaginary Meeting’ musically enacts one of the greatest missed opportunities in musical history – a...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2020
Mahan Esfahani is characteristically pugnacious in his defence of these six works, in terms of their quality and authenticity, and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2020
Vaughan Williams wrote his Concerto in F minor for bass tuba and orchestra for Philip Catelinet, who gave the premiere...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2020
Who’s the one demanding respect here? Well, it’s Telemann, who stood at the font for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. But...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2020
This album’s title, ‘Dreamtime’, suggests a programme of quiet listening – a slew of soothing adagios, perhaps – but it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2020
Santa’s sleigh may have delivered this disc a fraction too late for our December issue, but then The Nutcracker isn’t...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2020
What you might call the Mahlerisation of Shostakovich continues its grim march onwards. Forty and fifty years ago, it was...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2020
Lithuanian new music is coming into its own, an impressive release of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (5/19) now followed by one of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2020
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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