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...
Offenbach composed his Concerto militaire in 1847, more than a decade before the premiere of his first operetta, Orphée aux...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 03/2019
Here is the giraffe-like time-travelling theorbo, in the beautiful Prelude to Stephen Goss’s hauntingly variegated concerto, startled to find itself...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 03/2019
Originally released on the Dinemec Classics label to celebrate George Gershwin’s centenary in 1998, this recording reappears on Somm 20...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019
Busoni’s mighty Piano Concerto responds well to live recordings – just think of Donohoe and Elder at the Proms back...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2019
Rehearsing for ad hoc projects in the coastal city north of Tokyo that lends the ensemble its name, the Mito...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2019
He may be best known for his cycle of (so far) 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho, who turns 70 this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2019
Here’s a late entry among 2018’s numerous Debussy anniversary offerings, featuring pianist Sandro Russo in Images Books 1 and 2,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2019
I first encountered the music of John Psathas, a New Zealand composer of Greek heritage born in 1966, on Evelyn...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019
Jan Jirásek’s current representation on disc is quite modest, his most popular recorded work undoubtedly the austere Missa propria (1991...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019
David Gompper (b1954) is currently Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa but his academic career has taken in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2019
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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