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...
There are several distinguished accounts of this symphony in audio-visual format to which Riccardo Chailly now adds another, a souvenir...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2017
Lyrita released the first discs of George Lloyd’s symphonies on disc back in the early 1980s, with LPs of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW17
/> In a Gramophone interview (‘Exploring the Frontiers’, 2/87), Bryden Thomson said of Daniel Jones: ‘He knows what he wants, he knows...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW17
One tangible observation from the booklet note is that Tommie Haglund’s Flaminis Aura (2001/04) takes its structural inspiration from the Adagio...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
Three cheers for this enterprising successor to Hyperion’s superb coupling (6/12) devoted to the two piano concertos by the Scottish progressive...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) composed his Second Symphony between 1908 and 1910 in Paris, where, as a 13-year-old, he had enrolled...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW17
Once championed by the likes of Stokowski and Bernstein, Paul Ben-Haim’s music is little heard these days, making this recording...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW17
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a festive work for the Christmas season, argues Thomas Albertus Irnberger in an extensive booklet note....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW17
When imported to the UK late in 1981, Herbert Blomstedt’s first Beethoven cycle gained further appeal through the inclusion of miniature...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW17
This two-record set takes as its starting point the various strains of dramatic music that fed into early Florentine opera,...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon 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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