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...
Reading Manfred Honeck’s extensive booklet note (nearly 10 single-spaced pages on the Eroica alone) before playing the CD left me...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
It was never going to be a complete surprise to find these four concertos to be an exquisitely joyous and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2019
The tone of Concerto Copenhagen’s Brandenburgs is set right at the beginning of Concerto No 1, where the usual raucous...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2018
The cover photos suggest glamour; the first item in the programme is romantic with a capital R. But don’t be...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2019
No ‘difficult second album’ for Colin Currie’s new record label but instead a worthy successor to the label’s imposing inauguration...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2019
When Bridge champions a composer, one needs to sit up and take notice: the series devoted to George Crumb, Fred...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019
The arpeggione was a hybrid instrument, smooth-waisted, tuned and fretted like guitar but bowed like a viola da gamba. Invented...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2019
Composer, conductor and administrator, Peter Ruzicka is certainly among the most versatile of present-day musicians and this latest release updates...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2019
The year 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Toivo Kuula, shot in an argument aged 35 (ironically, his...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2019
Górecki’s string quartets are fundamental to understanding his output, even though the first dates from 1988, his 55th year, and...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2019
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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