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...
Ignoring the booklet’s avowal that the works featured on this album are ‘generally something of a blind-spot for music lovers...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2017
First impressions are wholly positive. Without sounding uncultivated, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra catch nicely the outdoorsy good humour of the...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2017
Glass and Bernstein may not trip off the tongue quite as easily as Bach and Handel or Haydn and Mozart,...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2017
It’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is. So goes that delicious quote of Noël Coward’s, and perhaps rather naughtily it’s...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017
Let me lay out information first of all: this is the conclusion of Yevgeny Sudbin’s cycle of the five Beethoven...
Reviewed by Stephen Plaistow in issue: 05/2017
These seven chamber cantatas were commissioned by the innovative chamber chorus The Crossing to go with a 2016 concert performance...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017
This release’s ‘masters in miniature’ subtext is a tad deceptive. The brief movements encompassing Schumann’s Carnaval and Ravel’s Valses nobles...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Turina’s two numbered violin sonatas date from 1929 and 1933 34, either side – by a couple of years –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017
Here’s a portion of what the American composer Paul Reale states in the notes about his works for two pianos...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2015
Ruth Lomon (b1930) is Canadian-born and, after studying at the Conservatoire de Québec and McGill University, continued at the New...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2017
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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