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...
This is a very welcome release indeed. Roger Smalley (1943-2015) is one of those British composers who have slipped beneath...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW2019
Schubert’s music for violin and orchestra doesn’t suffer from over-familiarity in concert and, lasting only about half an hour in...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW2019
Tippett and the Lindsays, Maxwell Davies and the Magginis, Ferneyhough and the Ardittis … many pieces bear the trace of...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019
Johannes Moser, whom I last encountered playing Rachmaninov and Prokofiev with Andrei Korobeinikov, now joins forces with Alasdair Beatson who...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019
The Jack Quartet continue to set the pace in terms of expanding and promoting the string quartet repertoire, their latest...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019
And so the London Haydn Quartet finally arrive in London itself. Haydn wrote the six quartets Op 71 and Op...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019
Three works by the US-born British composer David Bruce immediately alert you to both his qualities (freshness, clarity, impulsive response...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2019
The unexpected gem of this album is the non-Sonata offering from Cantata No 5, Wo soll ich fliehen hin. The...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: AW2019
The biggest surprise about this second disc in Rumon Gamba’s series of British tone poems wasn’t the fact that it...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW2019
The 1930s saw a larger number of front-rank violin concertos than any other decade, making Fabiola Kim’s collating of three...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW2019
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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