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...
Both these composers were forced from their homelands by Nazism, a big enough upheaval for anyone to come to terms...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 02/2018
It’s pleasing to see Haitink still including Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony in his concert programmes, even if it doesn’t feature as...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 02/2018
Once again, we face the familiar conundrum: a work that has overcome ‘pathos and Faustian conflicts’ and ‘extends its warm...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2018
Here’s the latest addition in Joseph Moog’s fast-growing discography, recorded in 2016 when he was 28. He has already impressed...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2018
Its title may evoke that of an album by The Carpenters in their heyday but this disc offers a welcome...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2018
A new set of the Brandenburgs from Reinhard Goebel? One’s mind immediately goes back to the 1980s, when his first,...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2018
Don’t let the strange cover photo put you off (conductor looking into camera, soloist looking in a completely different direction)....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2018
Shostakovich’s music abounds with ambiguities and coded references that beckon to us to read between the lines. In the Fifth...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2018
Florida-born, DC-resident Scott Pender (b1959) is nothing if not a composer for the recording age. And a prolific one, at...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018
The joyful virtuosity and stylish musicianship that Tomas Cotik and Tao Lin brought to their superb cycle of Schubert’s violin-and-piano...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2018
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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