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...
Rautavaara may have moved away from avant-gardism in favour of mystic neo-Romanticism but the works assembled here show that he...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2018
If ever a Mozart recording were self-recommending, this is it. The first four volumes of the French-Russian duo’s complete sonata...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018
If you’re thinking ‘ah, just another recording of French viol pieces’, think again. You couldn’t be more wrong. This recording...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2018
Hoffmeister and Rossini appear, on the face of it, to be an odd couple indeed. Certainly I can locate no...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2018
As in earlier volumes of their Haydn series, the Doric often dazzle, occasionally frustrate, in these, the last works Haydn...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2018
If you’ve ever played a musical version of Six Degrees of Separation, you’ll quickly have realised that there aren’t many...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2018
Seven meditations on a shared theme, both musical and emotional, John Dowland’s Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares is much more than...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2018
Born in New Zealand though long resident in Edinburgh, Lyell Cresswell (b1944) is among those ‘well-respected if not widely known’...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2018
That the dedicatee of John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957 58) is Elaine de Kooning (wife of the...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 04/2018
The ZEN Trio play this pair of warhorses with the technical assurance, musical conviction and stylistic unanimity of an ensemble...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2018
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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