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...
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Kathleen Ferrier: In Celebration of Bach
In June 1950 Kathleen Ferrier made her Viennese debut in a series of concerts at the Musikverein as part of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2019
AMNER Complete Consort Music (Dublin Consort Singers; Fretwork / Keane)
A near-contemporary of Gibbons,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2019
VINES Loose, Wet, Perforated
Originally released on the Phoenix label in 2005, this all-Schoenberg disc gains a new lease of life courtesy of Navona....
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2017
SANFORD Black Noise
David Sanford (b1963) is an alumnus of the University of Northern Colorado, New England Conservatory and Princeton. He has received...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
KROUSE Armenian Requiem
Ian Krouse’s powerful Armenian Requiem, commissioned by Vatsche Barsoumian’s Lark Music Society, draws on traditional liturgical chant and poetry to...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2019
D'HAENE Music with Silent Aitakes
Gagaku, the music of the Imperial Japanese Court, has exerted a fascination on Western composers for many decades, not least...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2019
COPLAND; RAVEL; STRAVINSKY Symphonic Dances
You have to hand it to New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their intrepid leader David Bernard for sheer...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
La Morte Della Ragione (Il Giardino Armonio, Giovanni Antonini)
I welcome Il Giardino Armonico’s commitment to filling our modern ears with such strange sounds with, well, open ears. As...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 07/2019
Jet Set! Classical Glitterati
The titular ‘glitterati’ are a disparate group of musicians linked only by the fact that they travelled and worked away...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2019
The Golden Violin: Music of the 20s
The title refers to a ‘golden age of violin playing’, nebulously defined in the booklet by ‘the artistry of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2019
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Berl Senofsky: American Virtuoso
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Book review - Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (by Simon Morrison)
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
Review - Max Rostal: Concert Tours 1956-1965
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Review - The Complete Symphonic, Concertante & Sacred Music Recordings (Orch dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano)
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
Review - recent Mengelberg releases from the archives
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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