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...
There’s definitely something to be said for having a musician select a personal choice of favourites among his or her...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: AW18
Toccata’s heartening excavation of music by the fringe but principled figure of William Wordsworth (1908 88) comes with a frank...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW18
This is the third Richard Strauss release from Andrés Orozco-Estrada and his Frankfurt orchestra on Pentatone. I enjoyed their Heldenleben...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW18
We are still awaiting Symphonies Nos 3 5 in Thomas Søndergård’s BBC NOW Sibelius cycle but in the meantime comes...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2018
It was ‘the worst of times’. In his excellent booklet note, conductor Krzysztof Urbański recounts the background to Shostakovich’s Fifth...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW18
Rendering (1988 89), a late instalment in Berio’s long-term engagement with the music of the past, now exists in more...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW18
The Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer (b1972) attracted a modicum of attention in the UK when his Tim Burton tribute A...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: AW18
This final instalment of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s latest live Rachmaninov retrospective offers more generous playing time than its companion discs but...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW18
Immutable, austere, impassable – the strength of Arvo Pärt’s music lies in its ability to project an image as powerful...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW18
Andrew Manze completes his Mendelssohn cycle with the sprawling but oddly lovable cantata-symphony Lobgesang. This may be the triumph of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2018
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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