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...
Opening this orchestral portrait of the American-British composer Bernard Rands is a Latino dance with a difference. There is no...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2019
Compared alongside the fast and faceless performances in Vol 1 of the Kholodenko/Harth-Bedoya/Fort Worth Prokofiev concerto cycle (3/16), Vol 2...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2019
In addition to the harvest of death, disenfranchisement, pain and suffering inflicted by societies locked into institutionalised racism, there is...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2019
Mozart’s last two symphonies were composed virtually simultaneously in 1788 and make a common coupling on disc. Few recordings, though,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2019
Too often ‘Spring marches in’ to Mahler’s Third with a scowl and the weight of the world already on his...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 04/2019
‘Romantic-nationalist’ is the description usually applied to Mieczysław Karłowicz's only symphony; but in fact the ‘Rebirth’ of its title relates...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2019
Browsing in a second-hand shop a dozen or so years ago, I found an ancient Chant du Monde LP of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2019
This conductor-less release from Avie manages to capture something too often lost in recordings of the early cello concerto repertoire:...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2019
Edmund Finnis (b1984) teaches composition at the Royal Academy of Music and is Composer-in-Residence with the London Contemporary Orchestra, for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2019
Mariss Jansons’s recent recording of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR Klassik, 9/18) was an impressive...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins 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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