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...
Wojciech Kilar’s music may be known to you even if you do not know his name, since he wrote scores...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 07/2018
Back in the 1990s, the highlight of my reviewing year was almost always the arrival of a new CD from...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2018
This is the second disc of choral music by American composer Gary Davison that Matthew Owens and his excellent Wells...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2018
A new disc of delights from the sprawling oeuvre of Charpentier is always welcome, especially when it comes from an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2018
Death-longing and the almost erotic union of Christ and the soul-as-bride are the keynotes of these ‘Dialogue Cantatas’, each of...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2018
Although it has taken 14 years, the mighty challenge for one player to record the complete organ works of Sigfrid...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2018
Assuming you’re after a complete set of Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias for unaccompanied flute, is there any living flautist you’d rather...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2018
Born into a musical family, the Swiss pianist Walter Rehberg (1900 57) built up a busy career as pianist, teacher,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
Here is a debut disc from a pianist whose biography does not feature any gold medals or prizes from international...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 07/2018
Federico Colli made a splash when he won the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, as much for his red cravat...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith 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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