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...
Mats Lidström’s Rigoletto Fantasy (2009) was inspired by hearing his violinist classmates at the Juilliard School argue the relative merits...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2018
The year 1940 was a dramatic one for Latvia. The country was overtaken by the Soviets, then the Nazis, then...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
Like many of the young musicians of the post-Soviet diaspora, Denis Kozhukhin naturally sought out Russian teachers in the West,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Sebastian Fagerlund’s residency at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam culminated in April with the third part of his orchestral trilogy in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2018
Concertos by Grieg and Delius form the twin pillars of Mark Bebbington’s new Somm release in collaboration with the Royal...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2018
Yet another La mer rich in detail (there have been quite a few of late), the ppp timps at the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2018
Oliver Davis is a lucky man. He enjoys the freedom to write whatever he wishes and has released a new...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2018
Norwegian contemporary music often gets overlooked (at least in the UK) next to that from other Scandinavian countries, so this...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2018
There was a time when collectors must have thought that the sublime outpouring of grace and goodwill that is Bruckner’s...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2018
Gerd Schaller has made something of a speciality of performing rarely heard or forgotten Bruckner scores. This new recording of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2018
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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