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...
Martyn Brabbins follows up his outstandingly lucid account of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony in its first published edition of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018
Only a cellist who paired Elgar and Elliot Carter on her concerto debut album could have devised this left-field programme...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2018
Absolutely stunning. Had the Heifetz-Piatigorsky team tackled Enescu’s string Octet, I doubt that they would have topped this version by...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2018
Can it really be 10 years since Steven Isserlis and Dénes Várjon proved a wonderfully innate partnership with their disc...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2018
Here’s a nourishing, thoughtfully compiled release from Signum, one of the keys to which can be found in some lines...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2018
‘All my life’s buried here …’ Stuart Skelton writes, quoting Oscar Wilde with self-deprecating irony, at the end of the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018
The booklet is confusing. It reveals nothing about Trinity Boys Choir or their conductor, prints a curious essay describing Durham...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: AW18
Les Cris de Paris are pretty hard to capture in a brief paragraph. Readers will recognise them as the chorus...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2018
As if anyone needed reminding that Joyce DiDonato is nothing if not an intuitive stage animal, all of her recital...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2018
‘A humanist Rite of Spring’ was Elliott Carter’s description of Stravinsky’s ‘melodrama with dance’, composed in 1933-34 to a text...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2018
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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