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...
This is a trickiest of discs to write about – unremarkable performances often are. For the first few pages that’s how it felt:...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2017
While Shostakovich appeared to dominate the Russian-Soviet musical scene as observed from the West, his pupils were often more comfortable...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2017
At the risk of sounding like a right old witch of a critic, I’m a fan neither of recordings with...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2017
The English composer Roger Sacheverell Coke (pronounced ‘Cook’) was born in 1912 and died in 1972. With dates like this you...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2017
This is both a milestone recording and a disc of milestones. With the issue of the 26th (1966), all 32 of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2017
It is rare for us to be offered the C minor Piano Concerto and the Triple Concerto on the same disc....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 11/2017
Bax’s Second Symphony (1926) bears a dedication to Serge Koussevitzky, who gave the world premiere in Boston on December 13, 1929....
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2017
Pianist Sonya Bach writes in the booklet notes to her recording of Bach’s keyboard concertos that she performs her solo...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
The repertoire for wind quintet is sizeable but musicians who play in these ensembles are always on the lookout for works...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 11/2017
Charles Wuorinen’s Alphabetical Ashbery consists of four poem settings arranged by title in, you guessed it, alphabetical order. Jeffrey Gavett’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2017
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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