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...
The Occasional Oratorio (1746) was first performed at Covent Garden in the uncertain midst of the second Jacobite Rebellion, two months before...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: AW17
Another month, another attempt to reconcile the musical tradition of the Latin concert Mass with an age hungry for narrative extras or postmodernist...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
The release of Robin Ticciati’s first disc with the DSO Berlin coincides with the start of his tenure as the orchestra’s music director....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17
In the hands of a master, watercolour can be a most expressive medium, capturing the fragility of a scene or...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17
This release, entitled ‘Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino’, constitutes a travelogue, or perhaps a ‘competition diary’. In August of 2016, Łukasz...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
A diverse grouping of first sonatas by American composers encompassed Cecile Licad’s Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol 1 (A/16); Vol 2 is given...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Martin Jones’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mining the piano repertoire en masse continues with a second CD devoted to virtuoso transcriptions...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Biographical sketches of Anton Urspruch (1850-1907), a professor at the Hoch and Raff Conservatories in Frankfurt, make much of his association...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
This is an altogether impressive, accomplished and rewarding release, a delight to listen to from both the sound and performance points of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17
In Schubert’s C minor Impromptu, Mona Asuka’s evenly balanced opening G natural octaves and plaintive shaping of the single-line phrase are offset by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
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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