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...
On paper, this album really shouldn’t work: the concerti grossi of the Italian Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli interspersed with...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2019
Now recording for Pentatone after 25 years with Harmonia Mundi, the AAM Berlin mark the occasion with the first six...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2019
Among the most prolific of composers today, Philip Glass also has never been averse to the rearranging of his scores...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2019
It’s a neat idea framing Dvořák’s ubiquitous New World with two miniatures of authentic Americana – one rural, one urban...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019
Aside from having a title like a complicated computer password (ulFSöDErBlom in Memoriam), Leif Segerstam’s 23 minute Symphony No 295...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2019
I wasn’t all that enthused by the initial instalment in this series, a pairing of Brahms’s Fourth and Dvořák’s Ninth...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2019
A late and grand maestro sat in his dressing room, the story goes, after giving his all to another Ninth....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019
The third volume in Navona’s enterprising ‘Quadrants’ recordings of new music for string quartet gives voice to an intriguingly conservative...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2019
Sometimes, not as often as I would like, one listens to a new disc and knows from the very first...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019
The title of this disc of chamber music for strings by Canadian-born Steve Zink, ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’, is curiously...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2019
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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