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...
YouTubers may well be familiar with the name of Marcus Paus as the world’s fastest (electric) guitarist. He has reinvented...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2018
Fresh from winning the Orchestral category at last September’s Gramophone Awards with his previous volume of Haydn symphonies, Giovanni Antonini...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2018
What could be more authentic than the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra performing Grieg – a composer with whom they had a...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2018
Three very different musical responses to spring make up this enterprising programme from Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2018
Orchestrally speaking, these are performances of refinement and style; rarely have I heard the poco sostenuto end to the Second...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 01/2018
Richard Rodney Bennett wore his prodigious talent lightly – but he dispensed it generously. From hardcore Darmstadt beginnings to friendlier...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2017
None of the six occasions on which the Ninth has been given at Bayreuth have lacked cultural or political significance....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2017
Here are two substantial works by the Bloomington-based composer Claude Baker (b1948), whose Piano Concerto (2010), written to celebrate the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2018
Like its politics, the buffeting turbulence of culture in the United States today is difficult to describe to anyone who...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2018
Recordings of Schumann’s symphonies have recently tended towards the small-scale, with chamber orchestras and often period manners, as witness the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2017
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
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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