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...
After the LGT Young Soloists’ several thematically programmed CDs, this one offers an unlikely juxtaposition of repertoire: the instrumentation becomes...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 10/2024
This Warner Classics disc does indeed contain Prokofiev’s ultimate hits: we have the Classical Symphony and then two suites from...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2024
There are riches flowing from the Skani label, currently doing internationally for Latvian music what Dacapo previously has for Danish....
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
The slow movement of the A major Piano Concerto, K488, is a revealing indicator of a pianist’s approach to Mozart....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2024
Period-instrument recordings of Mozart’s delightful Concerto for flute and harp are surprisingly infrequent, so it is good to see this...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
Isata Kanneh-Mason’s fifth Decca release is dedicated to the music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn in an interesting programme including...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024
Hard on the heels of Kirill Karabits’s high-powered Faust Symphony (Audite, 10/23) comes Gergely Madaras’s version from Liège, equally compelling...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024
Anders Hillborg’s Violin Concerto No 2 is a real head-scratcher, but after eight or nine listens I’m just about ready...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
It might be construed as ironic were the music of Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) to achieve wider recognition as a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2024
Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) – a student of Granados, Pedrell and Schoenberg – left Spain after the civil war...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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