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...
Petrushka comes home. To Paris if not the Théâtre du Châtelet. Following on from Klaus Mäkelä’s handsome coupling of Stravinsky’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024
Unsuk Chin follows John Adams in getting the full Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings treatment while still alive, and rest assured the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, who died in February 2017 at the age of 93, was a master conductor and much-loved musician whose...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2024
Although Bruckner revised his Second Symphony several times after its initial composition in 1872, there’s much to be said for...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2024
Italian-born Francesca Dego returns to the successful formula of her debut concerto disc (DG, 2/18), pairing an Italian rarity with...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2024
Lovers of French rarities will enjoy this stroll down the boulevard of belle époque Paris featuring Reynaldo Hahn’s Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
Three string-playing composers who hailed from the same Franco-Belgian school of string pedagogy – this album from John Wilson’s Sinfonia...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
The autumn of Simon Rattle’s illustrious career continues to deliver in abundance. This deeply impressive account of Mahler’s harrowing Sixth...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 04/2024
The Korean pianist Kay Kyung Eun Kim, a champion of contemporary works and innovative keyboard techniques, offers pieces by three...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 04/2024
‘Tales is an exploration of African American folklore and Afrofuturist stories’, Carlos Simon writes in the booklet note for this...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2024
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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