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...
The German composer Walter Steffens (b1934) has written in many styles and genres, from the intimate to the extravagant, and...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2018
Among the MSR label’s releases devoted to music by the American choral conductor, organist and composer Hampson Sisler (b1932), the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2018
These recordings of music by the Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra (b1953) have a complex history, dating from various points...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018
The first complete recording of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, restoring the composer’s original 1937 orchestrations, raises the inevitable...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2018
Gina Biver is a musical force of nature: electroacoustic composer, producer, electric guitarist and director of the Washington DC-based Fuse...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2018
Mark Abel’s fourth CD on Delos is rich in those moments of inspiration when a composer first comes under the...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2018
Semiramide is the last, and longest, of the 32 operas Rossini wrote for Italy. Based on Voltaire’s tragedy Sémiramis (1748),...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18
What a difference an orchestra makes: an orchestra, mind you, that has been nurtured and honed for the best part...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: AW18
Jiyoon Lee won joint first prize at the 2016 Carl Nielsen Violin Competition, so it is unsurprising, perhaps, that she...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2018
Regular readers of Gramophone will surely know that there are numerous exceptional recordings of Bach’s six Cello Suites, from Casals...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18
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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