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...
Not much unites Delius and Bax beyond nationality and some mutual friends. Despite the former composer’s famous cosmopolitanism, it’s Bax’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017
Bach’s dozen or so solo cantatas are all memorable for their vocal expression and refined instrumental commentary but here we...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2017
This is one of those discs where a word count is a strange thing. For it needs only four: Go...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2017
The last few years have been a period of extremes for Pergolesi’s Stabat mater. High-profile recordings have veered wildly between...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2017
Haydn’s reputation as a competent pianist but no wizard is surely correct; he appears never to have stepped forwards to...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 06/2017
It’s been some years since we’ve had a disc of Brahms’s sextets as thoroughly satisfying as this one, recorded live...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017
Here for once is a Mahler symphony release that feels different from the outset. Jared Sacks and his colleagues at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2017
In 1926 Aaron Copland declared that George Antheil ‘possesses the greatest gifts of any American now writing’. Ten years later,...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2017
Lest anyone harbour reservations about Shai Wosner’s gifts as an imaginative programmer, this CD should lay them to rest. Using...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2017
Towards the end of his life Stanford wrote two sets of 24 Preludes for piano boasting impeccable craft and characteristic...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 06/2017
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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