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...
Written as a test piece for the 1932 National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, John Ireland’s A Downland Suite...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2018
Kenneth Hesketh (b1968) is one of Britain’s finest composers and (at the Royal College of Music) teachers. His 50th birthday...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018
Try this disc in reverse order. Stephan Koncz has arranged Josef Suk’s Liebeslied for violin and orchestra, and it’s a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018
In 1941 Richard Strauss devised five suggested ‘Programmes of my works’. Among them was a ‘light programme’ that included the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2018
Released as part of Harmonia Mundi’s Debussy centenary series, this superb disc from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles also to...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 12/2018
Whether or not Copland’s Third is ‘The Great American Symphony’, it’s definitely a tough nut to crack. Even Leonard Slatkin,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
Those disinclined to acquire Marin Alsop’s Bernstein edition in boxed form, handsome though it is, will welcome the release of...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2018
In the documentary Voyage to Cythera, Berio makes it clear that the many musical references in the third movement of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2018
Kent Nagano’s absence from the UK for two decades has been to others’ benefit – not least the Bavarian State...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2018
I’m not entirely sure why the name of the great early 20th-century Beethoven conductor Felix Weingartner came to mind as...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 12/2018
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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