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 first recording by the Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble for Sono Luminus displays a stunning precision of harmony and intonation, and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018
The best performances of Tchaikovsky’s sometimes rambling and pianistically unwieldy G major Sonata project the music in symphonic terms, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018
Igor Frolov (b1937, not to be confused with the Moscow-based cyclist of the same name, b1990!) enjoyed an international concert...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018
Rory Cowal opens this recital with Johanna Beyer’s multi movement Clusters, a riveting and attention-grabbing work that ought to be...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2018
The Georgian-American composer George Oakley writes in an appealing and colourful style that blends elements of his Georgian folk heritage...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 12/2018
'I’m not an academically trained composer/musician’, writes Mark John McEncroe in this new Navona two-disc set (the fourth devoted to...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2018
Recorded live during the...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 12/2018
Vladimir Jurowski has a beef with ballet companies and the 1895 revision of Swan Lake. In last month’s enthralling ‘The...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2018
Bells up; with the greatest vehemence; hurriedly, ie carelessly throughout. Mahler’s Fifth is peppered with such imprecations, as well as...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018
The follow-up to their impressive showing in Per Nørgård’s First and Eighth Symphonies (8/14) finds Sakari Oramo and the Vienna...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
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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