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 valiant attempt at a worthwhile exercise that nevertheless throws up one or two puzzling matters. The performance...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019
Conceived to mark the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, in 2014, the Merton Choirbook project set out to create...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2019
Although the London performance of the Enigma Variations under Richter in 1899 is invariably cited as the composer’s ‘red letter’...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2019
Eric Coates, the ‘King of Light Music’, is of course best known for his orchestral pieces. His more than 130...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2019
De Doelen hall in Rotterdam may not boast the six-second echo of Bremen Cathedral, birthplace of the German Requiem, or...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019
For all the eccentric ordering of this fascinating set, which proceeds according to neither chronology of works or recordings, the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019
Danny Granados (1964-2018) studied with Robert Marcellus, first chair clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the Szell years, and embarked...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
This is the second programme of music for solo horn (with – as here – or without accompaniment) to have...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
The art-music repertoire for electric guitar is not extensive, a smattering of concertos aside (not least Fuchs’s Glacier – Naxos,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
When Bruce Levingston was invited to give a recital for the opening of the Civil Rights museum in his home...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019
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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