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...
He may have limited presence in UK concert halls but Pascal Dusapin (b1955) continues to be among the most recorded...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2017
The title is deliberately ambiguous. ‘Bracing Change’ can mean both ‘a refreshing change’ and the notion of nurturing and supporting...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2017
In Chaya Czernowin’s music the natural world is frequently present and ever enigmatic. Nature here is not domesticated and anthropomorphised;...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2017
Of the crop of Italian violinist-composers who successfully made London their home in the early 18th century, Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
My first port of call for comparisons in the Britten was the Belcea Quartet, initially in the first movement of...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
Surely the best music here is by Clara Schumann, the Andante slow movement of her G minor Trio suggesting Brahmsian...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2017
‘A new way of thinking about classical music and improvisation’ and ‘historical music practice in a contemporary form’ is the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2017
These symphonies, composed between 1950 and 1955, are fascinatingly paradoxical. All three are lavishly orchestrated and teem with activity, yet...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2017
I happened to miss Esther Yoo’s DG debut disc of Sibelius and Glazunov concertos. On the basis of this all-Tchaikovsky...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2017
It’s more than 10 years since Pentatone issued a recording of Shostakovich’s First Symphony, a distinguished effort from Vladimir Jurowski...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2017
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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