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...
Three most welcome additions to the Parry discography, all enjoying a new lease of life thanks to the indefatigable musicological...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2018
Liya Petrova and Jiyoon Lee shared first prize in the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition. Lee’s terrific recording of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2018
Eight unison horns dramatically announce Mahler’s pantheistic hymn to the natural world. And if the opening bars of Adám Fischer’s...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2018
Initiated years ago by the late Richard Hickox and continued splendidly with Vol 3 by Andrew Davis (12/13), this latest...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2018
Haydn’s violin concertos do better on disc than in concert and period-instrument recordings appear surprisingly often. The C major and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018
It’s hard to imagine any new recording of Glazunov’s The Seasons being anything other than a pleasure. It’s not that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2018
Calling a composition Topophony might suggest an emphasis on musical mathematics and acoustics. But the full title, ‘Topophony for orchestra,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2018
Two of the last century’s greatest symphonists, though disparately placed in so many respects, had one thing in common: both...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2018
Master of musical pragmatism, Jonathan Dove is also capable of thinking on a large scale – hence his settings of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2018
With an economy of means that would serve him well in years to come, the 26-year-old Brahms wrote a single,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 11/2018
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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