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...
Edgard Varèse’s Intégrales – completed in 1925, 10 years after he first set sail for Manhattan – acts as a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2017
As the title indicates, on this disc the composers, performers and the music itself are linked by depression, Parkinson’s disease...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
Flux represents five recipients of Rambert Dance Company’s Music Fellowship scheme. Established by the company’s music director Paul Hoskins in...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 07/2017
Having already given us impressive versions of the two symphonies (Hyperion, 10/11), Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017
In these historical performance-aware times it’s now a comparatively rare event for a Baroque recording to throw up a genuine...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2017
Spot the Ponte Vecchio – however blurred the photograph – on a CD cover and it’s a fair bet that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2017
Interest in Tansman’s music in recent years has led to a large number of recordings but none so far as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
Suk’s great memorial symphony to his father-in-law Dvořák and his own wife is indelibly associated on disc with the Czech...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2017
Richard Strauss didn’t do himself any favours when he called his late compositions ‘wrist exercises’, and I’ll confess that previous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Andrey Boreyko, best known to record buyers as a skilful proponent of contemporary or near-contemporary music from the ex-Soviet bloc,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 07/2017
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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