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...
Back in days of old, recordings – and, for that matter, live performances – of Berlioz’s huge-scale Mass for the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2018
‘God the Lord is Sun and Shield’ – the title of Cantata No 79 – is the epithet given to...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/2018
There are no concepts, no gimmicks and just a single-word title – ‘Bach’ – for Benjamin Appl’s latest release. This...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2018
All four works here are premiere recordings – two only in transcription – and the major item is without doubt...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
Kellan Toohey, a gifted young clarinettist from Colorado, has bestowed a lovely gift upon composers ‘who are either from Colorado,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018
Although entitled ‘Russian Trumpet Sonatas’, this album featuring eight Soviet-era sonatas is really the story of two intrepid trumpeters. One,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
In the midst of premiering new works by Mark Hagerty, Bright Sheng and Jennifer Barker and getting ready to make...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2018
Born in Hong Kong and now living in the United States, Stephen Yip is a composer whose chamber works abound...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2018
The Californian Arthur Gottschalk (b1952) – no relation, I think, to Louis Moreau Gottschalk – studied with Ross Lee Finney...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2018
It was the early 1980s when I dropped in at Lou Harrison’s place on the California coast. I had met...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes 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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