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...
As Mahler symphonies have become better and better known over the years, so too has the pressure grown on his...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2017
Haydn’s three authentic violin concertos fit ideally on a single disc and are an integral part of every aspiring fiddler’s arsenal....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 12/2017
Let me urge immediate investigation of George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904), four colourful tableaux of red-blooded vigour, fresh-faced charm...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2017
If the most common coupling for Britten’s Violin Concerto is more Britten – most obviously the Piano Concerto, as for Mark...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2017
As ever with Brahms’s D major Symphony there’s the loaded question: are we talking a thoughtful work with occasional sunbeams reaching...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 12/2017
Marin was both a beginning and an ending for the Danish composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen, who put so much of himself...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
What could be more appropriate than a Spanish orchestra and conductor to add local colour to Ernest Guiraud’s suites arranged...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2017
There’s a rhythmic trick at work in the first of Ned Bigham’s Archipelago Dances Set 1, a wily spacing of the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2017
How many labels still offer such generous repertoire-driven selections in physical format? Some years after Chandos released his successful Bartók...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 12/2017
BIS’s long-term commitment to the music of Kalevi Aho (impressive even by the standards of this label) continues with a disc...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2017
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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