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...
A one-time pupil of Sven-David Sandström, the Swedish composer Peter Lindroth is now in his late sixties. This portrait CD...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2017
I thought during the first track, Tambourin chinois, that I was in for another efficient and charmless collection of Kreisler...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017
‘Whatever his hand found to do he did it with his might’, wrote Vaughan Williams of his friend Gustav Holst,...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Furtwängler’s father was an archaeologist who assisted Heinrich Schliemann in the uncovering (some would say imaginative reconstruction) of the temples...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2017
It’s always nice to receive a new disc of music by Robert Fuchs, the Austrian symphonist who taught a regular...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
On the face of it, Fauré might not seem like the most obvious of pairings for the music of David...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Like his geographical neighbour Per Nørgård, Anders Eliasson hit upon a harmonic formula early in his career that freed him...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017
Although it was well received at its November 1916 world premiere in London, Delius’s String Quartet was promptly revised by...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2017
So far as I can see, this is only the second time that both of Chaminade’s piano trios have appeared...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017
In their overarching feeling of balance and proportion, these interpretations by the WDR Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players remind me of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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