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...
Most of the works on the newest release from the San Francisco Girls Chorus are receiving their first recordings, which...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2018
The North Texas Wind Symphony are nothing if not industrious, with a recording history going back to the late 1980s....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018
Adam Estes’s tribute to Francois Rossé, who studied with Messiaen and collaborates with saxophone great Jean-Marie Londeix, is a brilliant...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
As 21st-century wind concertos go, this is as entertaining as it gets. I have not encountered the music of Frank...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2018
Sara Feigin (1928-2011) pursued a multifaceted career as pianist, composer and educator, first in her native Latvia and subsequently in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2018
While Michel Corrette’s methods and writings rank alongside those by Geminiani, CPE Bach, Quantz and Tartini, fate has been less...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
There are many lovely things on this recording of songs by Garth Baxter about loss and memory, and of marrying...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2018
This anniversary set places under one attractive, inevitably large yet manageably portable roof all of Birgit Nilsson’s major-label recordings (the...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2018
My advice to anyone buying this excellent disc is to start by ignoring the contents of the booklet (apart from...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2018
Anita Rachvelishvili had the sort of remarkable big break of which young singers can only dream. Aged 25, a member...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2018
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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